Strap-hangers got a token of good news Friday — major subway crime has dipped 6.2 percent for the first 11 months compared to the same period last year.
Preliminary NYPD statistics released yesterday by the MTA show that from January through November, the numbers of felony crimes dropped from 2,482 a year ago to 2,329 such incidents this year.
What’s more, the daily robbery average decreased from 2.2 to 1.1 and daily major felony average fell from 7.4 to 7.
The 6.2 percent decline in subway crime sharply outpaces a far more modest crime decline citywide — less than 1 percent — that was listed by the NYPD on its Web site for roughly the same period and crimes.
Through Dec. 1, the NYPD says citywide crime dropped 0.61 percent, a figure that includes the same six categories of crimes tallied within the subway, system as well as grand larceny auto, which plunged 8.5 percent so far this year.
Even though the overall crime rate has remained static compared to a year ago, residents should be cheered by the whopping 20.3 percent plunge in the murder rate — a statistic that means the Big Apple will be virtual certain to record the fewest number of homicides since the department first began amassing such statistics 60 years ago.