Trump admin rips blue city crime in vow to clean up dangers for commuters: 'This is not humane'

NEW YORK – Days aft U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called connected New York City’s enactment to cleanable up the city’s subway system, Mayor Eric Adams extended an invitation asking Duffy to acquisition firsthand the issues plaguing the crime-ridden transit hub. 

On Friday, Adams and Duffy went underground, boarding the BQE enactment successful Brooklyn and riding the subway into Manhattan alongside NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta arsenic the national authorities vows to assistance the metropolis with its transgression prevention. 

"The politician has been moving connected a bipartisan effort to get much instrumentality enforcement officers into the strategy to marque radical consciousness safe," Duffy told reporters wrong little Manhattan’s Broadway-Lafayette station. 

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sermon transit information portion riding a Manhattan-bound subway bid successful Brooklyn, New York connected Friday, April 4, 2025. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

The high-profile sojourn comes 2 weeks aft Duffy penned a missive to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), saying the Trump medication is present to "restore order" and requesting the section manus implicit information connected rider assaults, constabulary patrols and fare evasion. 

"I admit your punctual attraction to this substance to debar further consequences, up to and including redirecting oregon withholding funding," Duffy wrote.

But lasting successful a engaged subway station, Duffy vowed to proceed providing the metropolis with national enactment and confirmed the medication has not withheld funding. 

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People thrust successful an F bid subway car successful New York City.  (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

"You'll find the Trump medication and the Department of Transportation are large partners with New York," Duffy said. "Let's marque it beauteous for the riders of the subway system." 

During his travel uptown, Duffy witnessed firsthand the woes plaguing the city’s subway system. 

"We conscionable saw idiosyncratic who was laying astatine the apical of the stairs," Duffy told reporters. "I don't cognize if [the man] urinated connected himself oregon defecated, but the politician needs the tools with instrumentality enforcement to instrumentality attraction of radical – this is not humane."

NYC MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER AFTER ALLEGEDLY SHOVING COMMUTER IN PATH OF SUBWAY 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy get astatine a subway presumption successful Brooklyn, New York connected Friday, April 4, 2025. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

While New York City’s subway strategy has seen a statistical driblet successful transgression passim the archetypal fewer months of 2025, stories of random unit proceed to rattle commuters. 

In January, surveillance footage captured the horrifying infinitesimal a antheral was shoved successful beforehand of an oncoming bid portion lasting connected the level successful Manhattan’s 18th Street station. While the unfortunate survived, authorities aboriginal charged Kamel Hawkins, 23, with attempted murder. 

One period earlier, a pistillate was killed aft an amerciable migrant allegedly acceptable her connected occurrence portion riding the subway successful Brooklyn.

Some commuters person been near to support themselves successful the subways.

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In December, Daniel Penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide successful the 2023 subway chokehold decease of Jordan Neely, a stateless antheral with schizophrenia who barged onto the bid shouting decease threats portion precocious connected a benignant of synthetic marijuana known arsenic K2.

In January, a 69-year-old antheral fought disconnected migrants who tried to rob him connected the subway, and successful different onslaught a 71-year-old pistillate fended disconnected 4 would-be teen muggers.

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Adams praised the national authorities for its assistance successful cracking down connected subway crime, but condemned Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration’s evident hesitation to rotation retired caller initiatives aimed astatine the MTA. 

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Mayor Eric Adams swipes into a subway turnstile alongside Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy successful Brooklyn, New York connected Friday, April 4, 2025. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

"I was sharing with the Secretary [that] the origin we're having successful Albany [is] involuntary movement," said Adams, a Democrat who announced his volition this week to question re-election arsenic an independent. "Homeless individuals who request care, oregon the enactment we request from our authorities lawmakers to spot [police] transportation retired connected the ground." 

The Hochul medication and the MTA did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

Commuters question done a subway passageway successful midtown Manhattan connected Monday, March 11, 2024. (Matthew McDermott for Fox News Digital)

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Duffy and Adams signaled their administrations would proceed to enactment unneurotic to combat transgression wrong the city, fundamentally removing the politician arsenic the middleman betwixt the metropolis and national government. 

"I deliberation Albany has to deliberation profoundly astir however acold we person to spell successful bid to halt [crime]," Duffy said. "That's much resources, that's much tools that Albany has to springiness [the NYPD] to apprehension people. [The national government] gives a batch of money, and for us, we're partners successful the process."