DAILY NEWS: NYC ends 2021 with uptick in violent crime in subways — assault and homicide numbers not seen in 25 years

NEW YORK CITY: New Yorkers who ventured back to the subways in 2021 endured a sobering surge in violent crime unseen in the last quarter-century, new police data shows.

Eight homicides and eight rapes were reported on the subways in 2021 — more than double the four murders and three rapes reported in 1997, some 25 years earlier.

The NYPD also counted 461 underground assaults across the city last year — 102 more than in 2020. That was the highest number of assaults counted since 1997, when police counted 501 subway attacks.

The eight reported homicides in the subways last year were two more than were reported in 2020, and the eight reported rapes underground last year were the most since 2012, which saw 10 incidents of rape.

Burglary, grand larceny and robbery in subways were all down last year from 2020, the data shows....

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