NYC transit murders nearly double over last year after broad-daylight shooting at crowded Midtown station

A brazen weekend killing at a tourist-jammed Midtown subway station has helped nearly double the number of transit slayings in the Big Apple so far this year compared to the same period in 2025.Police said Saturday’s midday fatal shooting at the Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street station in Manhattan marked the seventh killing in the city’s subway and bus system since January — with the gunman, who is described as armed and dangerous, still on the loose.There were four transit killings in the same period last year.“The subway was the cool thing about New York,” said Gisela Medone, 44, a tourist from Miami who is in town with her mom and sister and staying at the Sheridan New York Hotel near the station, on Sunday.“Part of the New York experience is taking the subway, and we were looking forward to that.Now we’re going to have to take Ubers everywhere.”The siblings’ mom, Gracielo Medone, in town with the family to celebrate her other daughter Yamila’s 41st birthday, said the shooting has put a damper on the trip — and promises to put a dent in their wallets.“We’ll walk,” the 64-year-old mother said.

“If we can’t walk, we’ll take cars.But everywhere, for five days, wasn’t in the budget.“I don’t know how we’re going to afford it.

Now there is a place or a meal we can’t get, or we’ll buy less souvenirs.The cab ride from the airport tried to rob us for $145.

He said $75, and then when we got here, he said $145.”The gunplay at the station at 53rd Street, which was packed with tourists at the time, indicates that transit violence is bucking the historic citywide drop in major crimes across the five boroughs.A man named Merrill, a 44-year-old private security guard from The Bronx, hopped a train at the station on Sunday, shrugging, “I’m not seeing anything new.”He said the crimes “look like gang violence, and stabbings are usually homeless stuff.”Police said the shooting took place around 12:20 p.m.Saturday when the...