750 members of the National Guard, the equivalent of the military, will be deployed in New York's transportation network. Since the start of the year, several violent incidents have taken place in the metro.
On February 12, shots fired in a station in the Bronx and attributed to a rivalry between gangs left one person dead, a 34-year-old man, and five injured. At the end of February, a subway conductor was also stabbed in a Brooklyn station. In recent days, a man was also pushed onto the tracks and other attacks occurred.