A swap on the subway in the Bronx, a nightly ritual in Chelsea and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Zohran Mamdani’s simplistic solution to “just make it free” may sound appealing, but it fails to withstand the slightest scrutiny.

Fare evasion in the New York City transit system is on the decline, although 45% of all city bus riders still aren’t paying for their trips, according to new MTA figures.

The NYPD and the transit union alike are asking for any information that could lead to the arrest of six suspects thought to be behind the wild late-night joyride of two stolen R trains last weekend.

In the last six months, fare evasion in the New York City subway system has decreased by 26 percent, according to Gov. Kathy ...

NEW YORK — New York City’s police commissioner unveiled a slate of initiatives Thursday designed to reduce recidivism and improve the quality of life on subways — two leading concerns of voters who ...

Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that subway fare evasion dropped significantly in the past six months amid a surge in enforcement and other measures to curb the issue. From June 2024 through December ...

New York City police are searching for a group of people they say took a subway train on a joyride. The department released images Wednesday of six individuals who they say commandeered an unoccupied ...

Police have released new surveillance video of the suspects who allegedly stole a subway train and took it for a joyride.

The MTA estimates 44% of bus riders and 10% of subway riders skipped the fare during the final three months of 2024.

Police are hunting for two gun-wielding suspects who mugged a teen boy inside a Bronx subway station on Monday.

In her state of the state address, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised the NYPD would patrol every single subway train ...