{"id":854064,"date":"2026-06-09T01:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/854064\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:52:36","slug":"mamdani-and-hochul-yuck-it-up-after-another-attack-by-a-mentally-ill-nyc-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/854064\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani and Hochul yuck it up after another attack by a mentally ill NYC criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Random attacks on New York transit have soared since 2020, and the reason is often violent psychosis that severs a person\u2019s link to reality. Such symptoms were on display after Sunday night\u2019s mass knifing <\/a>at Penn Station, which injured five people. To wit: the morning after the attack, Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani were delusionally raving.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s alleged Penn Station<\/a> attacker, Hector Deleon, 51, has a history of violence. In 2022, he pled guilty in New Jersey to stabbing a victim in the neck, after that person ordered him off private property following previous thefts.<\/p>\n

Stabbing someone in the neck \u2014 the victim needed nine stitches <\/a>\u2014 isn\u2019t exactly a non-violent crime. But a judge gave him probation, and ordered him to continue mental-health treatment and perform community service.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t take. He faced rearrest last month for stealing from a Jersey Dunkin\u2019 tip jar, but went free again despite his history.<\/p>\n

Deleon is crazy but maybe not that crazy: possibly upset about his looming court appearance next week on that charge, he somehow made his way to New York, armed, to harm as many people as he could in a high-profile location.<\/p>\n

He chose our interstate transit hub \u2014 the nexus of the Knicks playoffs and of travel to the Jersey World Cup matches, all happening this week.<\/p>\n

This guy looks like a Frank James. James, remember, was the low-level criminal who traveled to New York from out of state four years ago to carry out a terrorist mass shooting on a Brooklyn train, injuring ten.<\/p>\n

No, New York can\u2019t stop every out-of-towner let loose by an equally lenient state and attracted to the big city as a tempting target.<\/p>\n

But they could show a little concern beyond statements of wishing and praying?<\/p>\n

Especially since the Penn Station carnage<\/a> is the city\u2019s second mass-casualty stabbing attack at a Manhattan transit hub in two months.<\/p>\n

And also since Mamdani still owes us the explanation for the fatal pushing, last month, of 76-year-old Ross Falzone down some Manhattan subway stairs. In that case, the city-run Bellevue psych ward released the suspect hours before he allegedly murdered.<\/p>\n

Two hours after Sunday\u2019s Penn Station attack<\/a>, Hochul and Mamdani jointly called a press conference in core Manhattan, for Monday morning at 10 am.<\/p>\n

The topic, though, was all \u2014 literally \u2014 fun and games.<\/p>\n

In the open air of Central Park, Hochul, jauntily wearing a white-visor cap as if she were a luxury cruise ship customer taking a stroll on the deck, had nothing but smiles. \u201cCan you guys feel it in the air, everybody? There\u2019s something different!\u201d she enthused.<\/p>\n

When the guests and press corps didn\u2019t clap and cheer on command, she tried again: \u201ceverybody\u2019s so alive!\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, alive is a good thing to be on the day after the city\u2019s latest stranger-on-strangers transit attack.<\/p>\n

But Hochul rambled for five minutes without saying a word about the attack of just 15 hours previously.<\/p>\n

Instead, she wanted to talk about a free World Cup watch party.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, following Hochul, spent his five minutes reminiscing about \u201cwhen I was a child growing up in East Africa\u201d playing soccer, before gliding into the \u201clanguage of delivering joy\u201d for \u201ca summer that will be memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, maybe a word to reassure New Yorkers as well as Knicks and World Cup visitors that something like this can\u2019t happen again, this week or ever?<\/p>\n

Because it keeps happening. Though Sunday\u2019s attack was on Amtrak and not state-transit property, New York\u2019s violent transit felonies are 3.2% higher, through April, compared to last year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bad sign that we\u2019re reversing Adams-era progress here, since such transit violence remains 29% higher than in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Under Mamdani, citywide, calls to report to quality-of-life distress on the transit system are up 36%. This unchecked disorder underground means more random violence \u2014 exactly what we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n

Penn Station and surrounding blocks are so teeming with disturbed individuals \u2014 despite a federal, state and local police presence \u2014 that it\u2019s hard for cops to pick out any one person before he snaps.<\/p>\n

So what are Hochul and Mamdani doing?<\/p>\n

\u201cWake up everyone, we have soccer on the brain,\u201d Hochul said Monday.<\/p>\n

Proof that the mental unwellness epidemic rages.<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Random attacks on New York transit have soared since 2020, and the reason is often violent psychosis that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":854065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,101775,8626,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,2694],"class_list":["post-854064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-penn-station","tag-stabbings","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-victims"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116717653746160025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}