We’re helping people with severe mental health problems to get them off the trains because they can do harm to themselves or others,” she said. “The solution is the state for the first time ever is deploying state officers into the subways. Still, Hochul - who has consistently pivoted to gun control whenever pressed on rising crime in New York City and elsewhere - insisted that “Democratic states are safer than the Republican states” and touted recent measures to address safety on the rails. Meanwhile, NYPD statistics show that killings in the subway system this year are at their highest level in more than two decades, even as ridership remains well below pre-pandemic levels. Lee Zeldin vows to ‘save the city’ with Mayor Adams in final pitch to NYC voters 4 train as it pulled into the East 149th Street-Grand Concourse station around 9 p.m. In the other, a 54-year-old man was stabbed in the left elbow when he went to the aid of a woman who was being harassed on a southbound No. In one, a 44-year-old man was stabbed in the neck after getting into an argument with another rider on a platform in the Morrison Avenue-Soundview Station around 7:15 a.m. Stefan Jeremiah for NY Postīut Hochul’s comments followed a pair of horrific, underground attacks in The Bronx on Sunday. Brad Hoylman and other elected officials at the Utopia Diner on Amsterdam Avenue as she canvassed the neighborhood. The Democratic incumbent added: “And I’m not even talking about the statistics, you can check it out yourself.” The governor had breakfast with state Sen. All the legitimate media organizations have called him out for what he is doing, fear-mongering.” “He has been hyperventilating, trying to scare people for months and New Yorkers are onto it. “I say: check the source,” Hochul told reporters outside the West 72nd Street subway station at Verdi Square. Kathy Hochul brushed off rising crime and claimed challenger Lee Zeldin was “hyperventilating” over the key issue Monday - just hours after two subway riders were stabbed, including a good Samaritan who intervened when he saw a woman getting harassed.ĭuring a campaign stop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Hochul tried to downplay Zeldin’s criticism of her and former President Bill Clinton for “laughing and joking about subway crimes” at an event Saturday. How Republicans can avoid a humiliating 2022 repeat and win in 2024ĭeja blue: Printer’s flub makes every Nassau County voter a Democrat Mondaire Jones to run for old House seat to topple incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert’s Dem challenger outraised her threefold last quarterĮx-Rep. Utopia hosts a Thanksgiving 40-meal-giveaway to those in need, sharing the restaurant’s success, an uncommon NYC thing to do.Rep. It’s my neighbourhood go-to breakfast joint but I see lots of patrons eating their dinner there in the evenings when I walk by. I get a warm welcome and often a Daily News or a New York Post if I ask for a house newspaper. That means no juice and no free coffee refills included with your meal.ĭirectly across the street from the 72nd Street subway station (1/2/3 Trains), it is a great launch pad for a walk and visit to such places as the Museum of Natural History and the New York Historical Society. Sadly gone (since COVID), is the ‘breakfast special’, once ubiquitous. The career waiters are classic: attentive, quick, and not intrusive. I always see lots of regulars and a hustling, no-nonsense staff. Columbus Avenue’s Gourmet Food is an example.īut, there remains a holdout: Utopia, 267 Amsterdam (between 72nd and 73rd), has booths and tables, and they let me have a booth all to myself (if they are not too busy), spread out my newspaper, and linger while I watch the crowds on their way to the subway station across the street. They’re fine, just less satisfying places to hang out, though about one third the price. Some have converted to the kind that serve eggs, potatoes, meat, and toast on a disposable plate. There used to be lots of old-fashioned breakfast restaurants on the Upper West Side.
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