“We need them on the platforms, we need them on the train, we have to stop and stop this activity,” she said. “And we have to catch the offenders when it happens.”
“We have to do more,” she said. “We see that clearly every day.”
Citing an “urgent determination to keep our subways safe,” Sheriff Jason K. Wilcox, who heads the Department of Transportation, said the Department of Police will send training unit officers to patrol trains and platforms.
On Friday, police officials provided details of two other subway knife attacks that occurred on Thursday, both of which were not fat.
Just after 1 p.m., a 59-year-old man on a train on A Street took to the streets of 125th Street after missing his intended stop. While on his way to a train back downtown, he got into a dispute with a man who was standing in his way on the stairs and was stabbed in the shoulder, Sheriff Wilcox said. The attacker fled the station.
The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he is expected to survive. There is no arrest in this case.
Also Thursday, around 5:10 p.m., a 38-year-old man was slashed in the face as he approached the turnstile at the Grant Avenue station in Brooklyn, Sheriff Wilcox said. He said the suspect, wearing a red hood, ran away from the station and sped off on a motorbike or motorbike.
During the September 30 L train attack, police said that Alvin Charles, who was homeless and is on supervised release after being charged with attempted murder last year in a separate case, had charged on Thursday killed a commuter, Tommy Bailey, during a dispute.
