Subway crime dropped 14% last month compared with October 2024, marking the lowest level for any October on record, according to NYPD crime and transit data released Monday.

There were 154 major crimes reported in the transit system in October, down from 180 in the same month last year, per the latest figures.

Police said the four-month period from July through October was also the safest stretch on the subway in recorded history, excluding the pandemic years when ridership plummeted.

While the figures indicate conditions are improving in the transit system, straphangers have been left rattled after several widely publicized attacks last month, including the fatal beating of Brooklyn resident Nicola Tanzi at the Jay Street-MetroTech station on Oct. 7. Close

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