NYPD officers patrol the Times Square Subway station on March...

NYPD officers patrol the Times Square Subway station on March 6. Credit: Corbis via Getty Images/VIEW press

A state-subsidized program to deploy uniformed cops on overnight subway trains began rolling out Monday night, and eventually two officers will ride every train running between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., the NYPD’s transit chief announced on Tuesday.

Joseph M. Gulotta, the chief, said the first deployment of 100 cops — two on each train — went to the A, G, J and L lines. There are 147 trains at any given time overnight and all of them will soon get cops aboard.

"Our goal is to make sure we’re on the train, we’re stepping off the train at each station, we’re switching to a different car at each station, we’re gonna make contact with the conductor, and the motorman on these trains, and the goal for that is, they’re gonna announce that a police officer is on that train," Gulotta said, speaking at a news conference at New York City Hall. 

No specific timeline for the rest of the subway system was provided but, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, the program will last six months.

Putting cops on all overnight trains was announced earlier this month by Hochul.

Mayor Eric Adams said having police officers aboard the trains would not cause delays except under certain circumstances, such as "the officers are maybe looking for someone, may have been a call over their radio."

"The police won’t do inspections just to hold up the train. Whatever we must do to make sure people are safe, we’re going to implement," he said at the City Hall news conference.

Since January 2021, subway crime is down 42% while ridership has increased 148%, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said last month. Still, there have been several high-profile crimes that have shaken the public, such as a man shoved in front of a moving 1 train in Chelsea and a homeless woman set ablaze in Coney Island on the F train. 

With Alfonso A. Castillo 

A state-subsidized program to deploy uniformed cops on overnight subway trains began rolling out Monday night, and eventually two officers will ride every train running between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., the NYPD’s transit chief announced on Tuesday.

Joseph M. Gulotta, the chief, said the first deployment of 100 cops — two on each train — went to the A, G, J and L lines. There are 147 trains at any given time overnight and all of them will soon get cops aboard.

"Our goal is to make sure we’re on the train, we’re stepping off the train at each station, we’re switching to a different car at each station, we’re gonna make contact with the conductor, and the motorman on these trains, and the goal for that is, they’re gonna announce that a police officer is on that train," Gulotta said, speaking at a news conference at New York City Hall. 

No specific timeline for the rest of the subway system was provided but, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, the program will last six months.

Putting cops on all overnight trains was announced earlier this month by Hochul.

Mayor Eric Adams said having police officers aboard the trains would not cause delays except under certain circumstances, such as "the officers are maybe looking for someone, may have been a call over their radio."

"The police won’t do inspections just to hold up the train. Whatever we must do to make sure people are safe, we’re going to implement," he said at the City Hall news conference.

Since January 2021, subway crime is down 42% while ridership has increased 148%, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said last month. Still, there have been several high-profile crimes that have shaken the public, such as a man shoved in front of a moving 1 train in Chelsea and a homeless woman set ablaze in Coney Island on the F train. 

With Alfonso A. Castillo 

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