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The F Train is Living Up To Its Name
By Gina Daidone, Olivia Bensimon and M ax Jaeger
New Yorkers love to F themselves on the F train.
That’s the unsa- vory takeaway from NYPD data on subway mas- turbators obtained by The Post, which shows the line had the highest number of com- plaints in 2017.
The NYPD field-
ed a total of 376 reports of public lewdness or exposure of a person last year, and straphangers logged 24 com- plaints at stations served solely by the F train — more than any other, MTA data show.
Counting all sta- tions where the F stops, 60 com- plaints were logged.
The Fourth Avenue–Ninth
Street station in Park Slope was the most popular stop for pocket- pool F-train rid- ers, with five complaints in 2017.
“Ewww, [I’m] hor- rified. This is the station I commute to and from everyday,” said Isla F., 34, as she waited for a train on Monday.
“It actually hap- pened [to me] last week in Soho,” said
Brooklyn resident Aya, also at the station. “It was gross but we never reported it, we just walked away.”
The second-jerki- est line is the No. 1 train. NYPD fig- ures attributed 19 complaints to that train alone, but showed that more than 42 complaints had been logged at stations where it stops.
The L train was third, with 17 complaints. But apparently, Brooklyn hipsters aren’t the ones getting busy with themselves — most of the com- plaints on the line came via Manhattan’s Union Square or Brooklyn’s less- gentrified Brownsville and
Canarsie neigh- borhoods.
Unsurprisingly, the massive Times Square- Port Authority transit hub at West 42nd Street had more com- plaints than any other station, with 16.
The Upper West Side is a hot spot for wankers, too. Stations between 59th and 110th streets logged 33 complaints com- pared to six on the Upper East Side.
And reports are on the rise, as 2017’s 376 com- plaints was a spike from 296 in 2016. Reps for the MTA and NYPD attribute the swelling fig- ures to cellphone cameras and new public-service
announcements.
“We believe that part of the increase in com- plaints has been due to the NYPD’s Transit Bureau and MTA’s joint cam- paign encourag- ing sex-crime vic- tims to come for- ward and report these crimes,” the NYPD said in a statement to The Post.
“There has also been an increase in cellphone cam- eras,” the depart- ment said, “which has made it easi- er for both victims and witnesses to take a picture of the suspect. In order to address these complaints we have plain- clothes officers patrolling the transit system throughout the city.”
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