#MTA exec accuses mayor of being out of touch with subway safety fears

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s hulking height and security team leave him out of touch with the reality of subway safety, Interim Transit President Sarah Feinberg said as she continued the drumbeat to get more cops underground.

“He’s a 6-foot, 7-inch man walking around the subway system with armed security, right? That’s just not how customers go through life,” Feinberg told WABC-TV’s Bill Ritter in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday morning.

“It’s not just about security, frankly, it’s about that size and what you bring to any situation,” she said. “That is not what women feel. That is not the vulnerable feel. That is not what our older population feels. That is not what an essential worker who’s getting in at Parsons and coming in for an hour, that is not what they feel.”

The comments were recorded on Thursday, the MTA said — the day before a string of subway slashings across Manhattan left multiple people injured and one person blinded in one eye.

After Friday’s attacks, Feinberg challenged the mayor to “wake up,” while repeating her mantra that more cops are needed underground.

But City Hall has insisted the subways are safe — while blaming the MTA for attempting to politicize the issue.

In her WABC interview, Feinberg praised Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, a de Blasio appointee, and the NYPD for adding officers in recent days — but said she was “frustrated” with the mayor himself for batting away her concerns about public safety.

“My concern is I don’t feel heard by the mayor, and I feel like he is desperate to have a political fight about this. That’s not what this is,” she said. “I don’t want to have a political fight. I just want to get us to a place where we’re doing the right thing for the city.”

She insisted the subway “doesn’t feel right right now.”

‘If you’re riding the system, you can feel it,” she said. “That’s what I think the mayor is missing. I appreciate the fact that he’s been in the system recently, he’s been riding the system more recently. That’s great, we welcome him anytime. But I’m not sure that he is feeling what the vast, vast, vast majority of riders [feel].”

De Blasio has insisted that “real New Yorkers” feel safe on mass transit.

“It doesn’t make sense to applaud City Hall policy while personally insulting the mayor who sets that policy,” City Hall spokesman Mitch Schwartz said in a statement.

“But it makes perfect sense that Governor Cuomo would want political attacks to distract from the investigations into his conduct. New Yorkers can see right through it.”