Gov. Hochul pledged at Grand Central Terminal Thursday to work towards driving down crime in the New York City subway system as her proposed blitz of subway security spending made it by finances negotiations in Albany unscathed.

The funds embody $77 million to maintain up NYPD additional time for in a single day practice patrols — funding which Hochul stated Thursday she would work to replenish past the tip of the fiscal 12 months. The finances additionally consists of $45 million to maintain Nationwide Guard troops deployed to the subway as a part of “Empire Protect,” a 9/11-era counterterror operation the governor has not too long ago employed to discourage extra extraordinary crimes.

“What was the world like before the pandemic, when individuals weren’t so anxious about occurring the subway?” Hochul stated, flanked by  Nationwide Guard troops, New York State Troopers and MTA chairman Janno Lieber at Grand Central. “We at the moment are down 16% in comparison with 2019.”

“We’re 11% decrease than final 12 months right now,” she stated.

Hochul’s presser got here as lawmakers in Albany are placing the ending touches on the state finances—which incorporates funding for each the MTA’s giant scale capital tasks and its day-to-day working finances.

Hochul additionally touted final 12 months’s efforts to put in surveillance cameras aboard each subway practice, in addition to applications meant to coordinate the state and metropolis’s subway-based psychological well being outreach applications.

The funding victory-lap comes as subway crime continues to be a flashpoint within the showdown between New York State and a federal authorities that has threatened to cease funding transit tasks over each coverage variations — particularly congestion pricing — and a notion of rising subway crime.

“I greater than anybody know there’s nonetheless extra to do,” Hochul stated. “Simply final week a person was stabbed to demise on the No. 5 practice, proper in the midst of rush hour — a galling assault that shocked so many riders.”

The state finances additionally consists of full funding to the MTA’s $68 billion five-year capital plan — depending on the MTA discovering a strategy to save $3 billion over 5 years throughout its capital and working budgets.

That program additionally consists of different expenditures Hochul stated would make the subway safer — cash for subway platform boundaries and $1.1 billion towards new fare gates at 150 subway stations within the subsequent 5 years.