Your problem is you're watching the news, don't do that. (The rate of news articles is pretty much never connected to how much crime there actually is.)
NYC is more or less the safest place in the world; it's certainly the safest place in the US. And the remaining danger is getting hit by cars, not in the subway.
NYC is more or less the safest place in the world; it's certainly the safest place in the US. And the remaining danger is getting hit by cars, not in the subway.
It wasn't like this in 1990.