I have only lived in NYC for 5 years, so grain of salt, but I want to come out as someone who does feel safe on the subway

Oct 22, 2025 · 11:50 PM UTC

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We count those!
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Even though I didn’t know about green metro cards that one time 😳
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about 15 years in and the only danger i feel is accidentally sitting in a mystery puddle
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You appear to be white. The likelihood of you being a victim of violent crime in NYC is significant lower than those with melanin.
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New Yorkers' experiences run the gamut. What lines do you ride and at what times?
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Most people fee safe. Right-wing pussies fear cities because they're too afraid to visit them.
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I’ve lived here my whole life and you’ll never feel safe on todays subways but it’s part of the fun
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Go on it off hours, then get back to me. And don’t just do the Manhattan lines
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bart is much scarier
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I'm glad you weren't the lady who was lit on fire but I would rather just not have ladies lit on fire
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It’s funny hearing the discourse online about NYC while we’re all just living our lives here going day to day without experiencing any of the horrors that the internet would swear to you take place here.
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I agree. Things happen on the subway but I use it every day, multiple times. Millions of us do - we move by trains. We do it safely but we all know a story, or have seen one, and worry. The fear-mongering from Cuomo and Sliwa is in a strong tradition of cop worship We know better
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Chalk that up to suicidal empathy.
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5 years is a decent chunk of time, you can totally own your opinion! I've been here for nearly 15 years and regularly bike and take the subway. I see exponentially more aggression and lawbreaking happening on the roads than on the trains
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As someone who was born here and used to take the train all hours of the night, you're full of shit.
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Nobody cares what you feel
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Woke ladies love anecdotal experience when it furthers their suicidal empathy. A grab bag of excuses to ignore reality and abstract emote instead of abstract thought.
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it has objectively gotten safer over the last 5 years, too
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Gaza is also very safe
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Are you in the food service industry where employees take the subway at 5am? Or work at the airport and take the subway home at 11:21pm? qns.com/2025/06/subway-attac…

Man charged with attempted murder in subway attack on airport worker at Howard Beach-JFK: DA – QNS

A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man for attacking an airport worker in a Howard Beach subway station late last month.

qns.com
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Your transition seems to be going very well. How long you been on HRT?
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So you aren’t a New Yorker!
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Criminals love to hear this. Make yourself confortable. Let your guard down. Enjoy the ride! 🤡
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The subway should be in a state where you feel safe, but you are much more likely to be hit by a car and die than be killed by someone else in the subway.
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Plenty of people feel safe until they don't...
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Take one at 11pm-6am Let's see how safe you will be
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I have worked/lived in NYC (Astoria, Queens to be exact) and have pretty much always felt safe no matter day/night and now more than ever, tbh!
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My 6th year in New York a guy masturbated on me on the subway, my 7th year I was assaulted 3 times around the Myrtle Ave stop on the JMZ
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Same, always have, 12 years. Not long ago someone on the subway tried to rob me for the first time. At like 1 pm in a train with plenty of people on it, with a clean kitchen knife of his mom's. I talked him out of it, which was really easy
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It’s literally fine, anybody afraid is a fucking pussy imo
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Been there since the 80s. It's a shit hole. You're playing pretend to Carrie Bradshaw LARP.
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Cool. How does that affect those who don’t?
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I wonder how a woman feels.......
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Read these replies and convince me they don't deserve what's coming.
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15 years, same. The one time I felt even remotely unsafe was when a yuppie was really annoyingly complaining that it was showtime on the train and one of the dancers punched him in the face. And even then it was a them thing, not directed at anyone else
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I rarely use the subway anymore not because of safety but because it's in a dreadful state of disrepair Hudson Yards 7 station is one of the few bright spots
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