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It’s getting scary down there.
Despite deploying hundreds of cops into the subways, a spike in violence has seen straphangers across the Big Apple slashed, shoved and beaten in at least seven attacks over the past week.
“It’s just the way of life now in New York, it’s just terrible,” the mother of a teen victim of a recent subway attack told The Post. “You never know what could happen. I just tell him, now you have to be vigilant.
“I would like to ride a subway and be free — be free to roam around, be free to go to, you know, fun stuff in New York City. But if you have crimes like that going on you’re gonna feel a little fear. You’re gonna be like, ‘You know what? I don’t want to go anywhere.’”
The attacks come as the NYPD announced 700 more cops would begin patrolling the rails overnight this week.
The subway surge began on Jan. 20, with 100 cops sent underground after several high-profile incidents, The Post reported — but it’s done little to ease concerns among New Yorkers.
The string of violence kicked off on Jan. 21, when a 39-year-old straphanger was slugged and slashed in an unprovoked attack on a Manhattan-bound D train passing through DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn around 2:45 a.m.
Then things escalated following another assault on Friday.
A 66-year-old woman riding a train in the Financial District was clobbered with a golf club by a masked brute around 7:30 a.m. — in another unprovoked attack.
The NYPD released surveillance footage of the suspect who remains on the loose.
Transit attacks continued Sunday, starting with a knifepoint robbery aboard a southbound R train on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens shortly after 1 a.m.
The 35-year-old victim told police two thugs approached him and verbally harassed him before one pulled out a knife. The other slugged him in the face and grabbed his cell phone.
“F–k you Mexican, f–k you,” the creeps allegedly yelled at the victim.
Police later busted two men — Gerard Belgrave, 65, and Angel Rios, 58 — and charged them with first-degree robbery and illegal possession of a weapon in the attack.
Later that morning a 25-year-old subway rider was attacked in the Bronx, suffering multiple stab wounds after getting into a beef with a stranger aboard a 5 train near the Grand Concourse and East 149th Street shortly before 11 a.m., according to cops.
Hours later, a 17-year-old told police he was on a 3 train near Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue shortly after 10 p.m. when he was approached by four hoods, who punched him and stabbed him in the leg before taking off. The victim was left in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
That attack also appeared to be unprovoked, police said.
Monday brought two more subway attacks, including a woman thrown into the side of a moving subway train at the 175th Street station in Manhattan.
The 23-year-old victim was left bruised and battered, while alert bystanders led cops to Markeese Brazelis, a 26-year-old homeless vagrant with at least two priors.
Brazelis was charged with assault and reckless endangerment in the Monday morning incident.
The brutality wasn’t limited to just the underground.
A 31-year-old woman traveling with three kids on an MTA bus in the Bronx on Monday suffered cuts to her hands and had an unknown liquid hurled at her after getting into a dispute with a man.
Sources said the 50-year-old suspect slashed the woman’s thumb with a knife.
He remains at large as of Monday afternoon.
NYPD data shows that crime overall in the transit system is down 36% so far this year compared to 2024 — despite a 56% jump in misdemeanor assault.
