Nearly 90% of transit workers say they've been assaulted or harassed

NYCT head disputes survey findings, calling them 'flawed'

Alton Scott, an MTA conductor, needed 34 stitches to close the wound that just missed his artery after he was slashed by an assailant at the A train’s Rockaway Avenue subway station in February. In March, a 38-year-old female MTA employee was struck in the face with a glass bottle at the 167th Street subway station on the 4 line. And a 58-year-old driver on the M15 bus disarmed a rider who punched him and pulled out a knife near South Ferry in February.

Assaults on transit workers are far from rare. But a new study published by researchers at the NYU School of Global Public Health found that nearly nine in 10 city transit workers reported that they have been assaulted or harassed on the job since the start of the pandemic, with female employees bearing the brunt of the attacks.