MTA, Union Leaders Call For More NYPD Officers To Patrol Subways After Off-Duty Conductor Nearly Blinded By Attacker
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Violence on the subway is becoming prevalent across New York City.
While Mayor Bill de Blasio says it’s safe, the MTA is making a plea to get more protection for riders, CBS2’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas reported Thursday.
MTA conductor Gerard Sykes’ face is bandaged. He’s in the ICU at Jamaica Hospital. © Provided by CBS New York
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Transit leaders say the off-duty worker could have been blinded after being slashed multiple times early Thursday morning while riding the J train at the Cypress Hills station.
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by Linsdey Van Ness
Nearly every day, Jan Salvay checks for her nephew’s name on the Nevada Department of Correction’s website: Nicholas, 39, jailed in a credit card forgery case. Then she checks the state’s list of deaths in custody just to make sure his name isn’t there.
“He’s … scared he’s going to get sick, and he’s going to die,” Salvay said.
When she last visited him, in February at a work camp, he was expected to be released in time to vote in the general election. Not long after that visit, he was transferred to a regular state prison because of an illness; then the pandemic hit and work camps closed.