Exclusive | NYCs major subway crime spikes in all boroughs, while citywide total down 1% stoking new fears among straphangers

Major crimes on New York City subways and buses have surged in the majority of NYPD patrol boroughs so far this year — even as the citywide total is down about 1% — stoking new fears among straphangers.The crimes shot up 32% in the Bronx North Patrol Borough, which includes Woodlawn, Kingsbridge, and Fordham, and 25% in the Manhattan North Patrol Borough, which includes the Upper West Side, Upper East Side and Harlem, NYPD data show.Major transit crimes have also increased 17% in Bronx South, which extends from Mott Haven to Hunts Point, and 16% in Brooklyn South, which includes Coney Island, Crown Heights and Park Slope. In the Queens South Patrol Borough, which includes Jamaica and Ozone park, the same crimes rose 3%, the data show.At the same time, the major index crimes are down 12% and 8%, respectively, in southern Manhattan and northern Brooklyn — bringing down the citywide crime stats.The NYPD didn’t provide an official breakdown of the index crimes — murder, rape, robbery, felonious assault, burglary and grand larceny.But a source familiar with the data said the crimes citywide are down 0.74% so far this year to 1,085 from 1,093 in the same period a year ago. Felonious assaults are up 4% citywide to 330 from 316 in the city’s transit system and robbery is up 10% to 216 from 197, the source said.In total, the five patrol precincts with increases in subway crime have seen transit crime jump 21% to 428 from 351, according to the city’s CompStat 2.0 website.At a press conference Thursday, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch acknowledged the increases in robberies and assaults while noting more guns recovered and arrests up.She pointed out that subway ridership rose 5% compared to last year.“We are also watching the categories where we have seen increases in transit: murders in transit are up by 2 year-to-date,” she said.

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