Mayor Eric Adams deserves a cheer for “Subway Safety Plan” wins, but making the transit system truly safe will mean getting a lot more help to Gotham’s seriously mentally ill.
On Monday, Adams announced that the city has placed 3,500 onetime “street” homeless, including 1,000 pulled from the subways, into permanent housing since 2022.
It looks like Adams’ efforts, combined with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s emphasis on quality-of-life policing, are paying off: MTA officials just announced drops in transit-system crime, including a 16.7% dip in robberies and a 9.3% fall in felony assaults, comparing July 2025 to July 2024…