There have been attacks on NYC subways 5 days in a row despite cops, National Guard and even the Guardian Angels on patrol

The Big Apple subway system has been wracked by five straight days of violence amid a spike in transit crime — despite the NYPD, National Guard and even the crime-crusading Guardian Angels on patrol.The horrifying Dec.22 torching death of a New Jersey straphanger on a Brooklyn F train was only the beginning of the latest underground crime spree, which has seen five people stabbed or slashed and a 45-year-old straphanger thrown under a Manhattan subway train since Sunday.

For some city politicians, it’s reached the breaking point.“New Yorkers do not feel safe on our subways, despite the nonsense that Gov.[Kathy] Hochul is spouting,” city Councilwoman Joanna Ariola (R-Queens) said Thursday.

“We need to prioritize public safety over empty political rhetoric, especially now that Albany is forcing more people into public transportation thanks to their latest congestion pricing tax.“More Guardsmen is great for optics, but what we really need to do is untie the hands of the NYPD and let them start doing their jobs again,” Ariola said.Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) also faulted lawmakers in Albany  — and at City Hall. “Every day, we face stabbings, shoves onto tracks, or worse, being burned alive.But Kathy Hochul says she’s ‘making our subways safer,’ and that ‘crime is down,'” he said.

“New Yorkers are tired of being gaslit— and even more tired of being assaulted. “We need an overhaul of city & state leadership.They don’t care about you!” Hochul last year ordered more than 1,000 National Guard troops into the transit system in response to growing concerns over subway safety, while Mayor Eric Adams “surged” 1,000 NYPD cops into the underground as well, a rep for the mayor said last week.But the violence has only increased, starting with the stomach-turning arson death of 57-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms River at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station, allegedly by illegal migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, who is no...