#Subway robbery doubled in November, NYC transit crime nears 2019 levels

November saw a huge jump in subway robberies and overall felonies underground, according to newly released statistics.

The figures included in the public materials for Monday’s MTA transit committee meeting show felony robberies more than doubled from October to November, from 40 to 88. Overall felonies — including grand larceny and assault — jumped 45 percent month-over-month, the documents said.

At the same time, the NYPD has recorded a 42 percent increase in hate crimes, driven by a 240 percent spike in attacks based on sexual orientation and a 257 percent spike in anti-Asian attacks, according to the board materials.

The 235 so-called “major felonies” in November fell just under the 244 felonies reported by NYPD in November 2019, according to MTA records — pre-pandemic, when over two million more people were riding the subways each day.

Yet while grand larcenies accounted for the majority of crimes recorded by cops two Novembers ago, last month’s records showed a 51 percent spike in robberies compared to 2019.

News of November’s troubling trends come after MTA Chairman Janno Lieber told The Post in multiple interviews last week that he remained focused on rider safety despite transit crime rates trending down over the summer and fall.

Overall major felonies are down 3.6 percent this year compared to 2020, according to NYPD stats. Felony assault surged in the spring, but has since dipped about 40 percent.

“Major crimes broadly speaking are down, but if you’re somebody coming back to work – or not – and you’re having interactions with people who make you uneasy, that’s a problem,” Lieber said Friday.

Lieber has pushed NYPD to increase its visibility in the transit system, after Mayor Bill de Blasio surged rush hour patrols at the beginning of the summer at the MTA’s behest. Lieber said last week he believes Mayor-elect Eric Adams will heed his advice to make the increased manpower noticeable to everyday riders.

“The mayor-elect has said again and again that we need to get more transit cops off desks and into the subway system, better dispersed to cover more area,” Adams’ spokesman Evan Thies said in a statement to The Post.

The rate of subway crimes soared amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 compared to 2019, when NYPD recorded a comparatively scant 1.47 felonies per million riders. That said, subway crime totals in 2021 are the lowest in 25 years, the MTA said.

“We’ve said repeatedly we want the NYPD to put more officers in visible locations like subway platforms and on trains where riders feel vulnerable,” MTA rep Aaron Donovan said in a statement. “That enables faster response to emergencies when they occur and allows officers to quickly see and address people displaying mental health problems who could be a danger to themselves and others — with the ability to intervene before a crime happens.”