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EMS responded to the scene near West 20th Street and Sherman Avenue in Inwood just before 9 p.m. Sunday.

Sequoia Cumming and Syeda Abbas

Sep 23, 2024, 4:19 PM

Updated 88 days ago

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Recent violence on MTA buses and subways has some commuters on edge.
On Sunday evening, police say a 15-year-old boy was shot after an argument on the Bx35 bus turned violent. Hours later, police say a man was slashed multiple times with a boxcutter on a bus traveling from the Bronx into Manhattan in Inwood.
Police have not made arrests in either case.
NYPD data shows that transit crime is up nearly 15% to last year with nearly 250 incidents so far on subways and buses.
News 12’s Syeda Abbas spoke with commuters about how the violent incidents.