The Latest Breaking News from Janno Lieber

NEW YORK — As subway crime continues to soar, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is urging judges and district attorneys to help ban “certain criminals” from the transit system, the New York Daily News has learned.

Technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does exist, but experts say installing such a system in the New York City subway would be challenging

NEW YORK — New York City’s subway turnstiles clocked 3.5 million entries this week, the most since March 13, 2020 — which was the Friday before the Big Apple shut down as it became an early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NEW YORK — A vast majority of New Yorkers want more cops in the subways and do not feel safe riding the trains at night, a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday found.

Video feeds from security cameras at a trio of Brooklyn subway stations failed as workers tried to fix problems with their hardware less than 24 hours before a crazed gunman lit up a train full of straphangers last month, MTA officials say.

Open drug use and the threat of mass violence have prompted calls for more security funding for mass transit. Congress also says better oversight of existing security is needed.

NEW YORK — Faulty computer systems prevented surveillance cameras at two Brooklyn stations from getting pictures of the gunman who sprayed bullets on a subway train on Tuesday, MTA officials said.

Mayor Eric Adams admitted there was a ‘malfunction’ on the entire camera system in the 36 Street subway station meaning suspected gunman Frank Robert James was not captured on footage at the scene

Commuters risk lives to remain on subway platform with victims amid chaos of Brooklyn shooting

‘Months ago, I started seeing that the number of people getting on the tracks and in the tunnels was going up,’ says MTA chairman Janno Lieber. ‘So I created an interagency group at the MTA to study it’