A $77 million cash infusion from the state to flood the subway system with extra NYPD cops has already run dry — forcing the Mamdani administration to cover the added patrols, The Post has learned.
The state fund — touted by Gov. Kathy Hochul last December as a way to keep a surge of uniformed officers in the subway system — was zeroed out by July, mere weeks into the Big Apple’s fiscal year, city and state officials confirmed.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a socialist who campaigned on eliminating police overtime altogether, will now have to honor a deal inked by his predecessor Eric Adams to continue the flood of extra cops in the transit system as assaults surge underground.
The revelation of the exhausted fund comes as felony assaults in the subway system were up 8% this month — though overall crime on the subways is down around 1%, according to NYPD data…