NYC Shooting Piles Pressure on Mayor Adams to Ease Worries Over Safety

Tuesday’s morning-rush-hour attack at a Brooklyn subway station marks the 41st mass shooting in New York City since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, adding to the anxiety and public safety fears that have gripped the city in recent months.

Incidents of such magnitude -- at least 23 people were injured, including 10 with gunshot wounds -- aren’t common on the city’s subway system: The last major scare came in 2017 when a man detonated a pipe bomb in a Times Square subway station tunnel, injuring four. But a rise in a number of categories of crime has led to what Mayor Eric Adams has called a “perception of fear.”