Inside NYC subway’s history of violence as crime runs rampant with people pushed to death on tracks

AT least 29 people have been injured after a masked suspect opened fire in the latest attack to hit the New York City subway.

It comes just months after two people were killed in a vicious stabbing spree and a woman was pushed to her death onto the tracks in what police branded a "senseless act of violence".

Chaos unfolded during the Tuesday morning rush hour at 36^th Street subway station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Gunshots were heard while photos from inside the station showed several bloodied people on the platform.

At least 29 people were hospitalized while 10 people were shot, according to the New York Fire Department.

The scary scene reportedly occurred onboard a Manhattan-bound N train arriving at 36th street.

NYPD data shows that at least 467 transit crimes have already been reported in 2022 - up 80 percent compared to this time last year.

Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, told The Sun that the 6 train between 125^th Street and Hunts Point “is no man’s land” and the 4 and D trains between 167^th Street or 161^st Street and the Fordham Road and Kingsbridge stops are just as dangerous.

In February, a stabbing spree saw two people killed, while in January, a stranger shoved a woman in front of an oncoming train at Times Square station.

The Sun looks back at some of the attacks to hit the New York City subway in recent months.

SUBWAY ‘RIPPER’

Rigoberto Lopez, 21, was arrested in February in connection to a vicious stabbing spree that took place on the subway.

The frenzied man knifed two people to death and left two others critically injured on the A-train line.

Lopez was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.

New York Police Department Deputy Chief Brian McGee said: “They were all unprovoked attacks, and the victims didn’t initiate anything. The victims didn’t initiate anything.”

Police said Lopez is mentally ill and has spent time in at least one hospital psychiatric ward.

His last known address was a motel in Gowanus, Brooklyn, which used to house homeless people.

Lopez had already been arrested four times, two of them for assault and criminal contempt against his father, cops said.

Carlos Martinez, 67, was stabbed as he pushed his walker along the southbound platform at the 181st Street station in Washington Heights.

He told cops that his attacker screamed: "I am going to kill you."

Martinez was stabbed in the right knee and left buttocks.

Hours later, a man was found stabbed to death but slumped in his seat on an A train in Far Rockaway.

Then, Claudine Roberts, 42, was found sprawled dead in a pool of blood under her subway seat.

Roberts was declared dead after arriving at New York Presbyterian-Allen Hospital.

And, a 43-year-old man was randomly stabbed as he slept on a stairwell at West 181^st Street.

‘RACIST ATTACKS’

Melissa Alyssa Go, 40, was standing on the platform when suspect Simon Martial, 61, pushed her to her death onto the tracks.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell branded the attack a “senseless, absolutely senseless act of violence”.