Guardian Angels resume New York City tour after subway crash: ‘I’ve never seen it this bad’

The Guardian Angels, a volunteer crime prevention group, will resume patrolling New York subways after the death of a woman who was burned alive last week.

“Now we’re back to where we were when I started this group in 1979 in the subways. It’s packed. I’ve never seen it this bad. I won’t,” founder Curtis Sliwa told The New York Post Sunday.

Sliwa founded Guardian Angels because “the need was there” after the rise in violent crime. Forty-five years later, he argued that “the need is here again” and his party “will rise.”

“We close the actual trains from front to back, walk the trains and make sure everything is running smoothly,” he said. “We do this all the time now. Starting today, that will be our full focus because the subways are out of control.”

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This group was inspired after an illegal immigrant was arrested for allegedly setting a woman on fire in a subway car, where she burned to death. Since then, Sliwa said they have received requests from “hundreds” of people to provide services.

“We will have to increase our number, increase training and be there again like we did in 1979,” said Sliwa.

According to Sliwa, 150 members will begin patrolling the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station where a woman was killed. They plan to provide health screenings and water to homeless people and other disturbed passengers while reporting problems to the NYPD.

Meanwhile, he emphasized his hopes that his party will inspire New Yorkers to be more than just bystanders.

The Guardian Angels were founded in 1979 after an increase in violent crime in New York City. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“There are many trains coming in and out of here,” said Sliwa. “This is a good place because it reminds people that last week nobody did anything. Nobody intervened. Nobody pointed to the police and said, ‘This is the boy.’ The police did nothing.”

“It was an example of people not getting involved,” he said. “And we’re here to say, ‘You see something, you say something.’ You have to do something.”

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The announcement came less than two weeks after New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that 750 members of the National Guard and 250 members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police were assigned to patrol the New York City subway system before the holidays.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the deployment of hundreds of National Guard members to patrol the New York City subway system ahead of the holiday season. (Getty Images)

“It is clear to me, as I have heard from many people, that the presence of the National Guard has not only made a physical difference, but there has been a psychological difference in the way they feel safe,” said Hochul. “When people see someone in uniform … even our National Guard, they feel a lot safer.”

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