Trump's DOT Chief Set To Tour Subway System With Mayor Adams

NEW YORK CITY — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will reportedly tour the New York City subway system with Mayor Eric Adams on Friday.

In interviews with PIX11 and NY1, Adams disclosed in addition to the subway system tour, he would also bring Duffy to the Brooklyn-Queens to talk to him about the city’s infrastructure needs.

“I want the secretary to see everything from our BQE, some of the crumbling infrastructure that we have, I’m going to talk about even federal dollars for our public safety initiative,” Adams said.

"I’m going to open my hand, extend it, and shake his hand and say, I want to produce for the city that I love,” Adams added.

The expected meeting between Duffy and Adams comes a little over a week after the transportation chief criticizing Hochul's handling of the New York City subway system, Patch previously reported.

While touring the aftermath of the Route 80 sinkholes in New Jersey, Duffy was asked by reporters about the possibility of withholding federal funding to the MTA.

In his response, he alluded to Hochul:

"If you want people to take the train, take transit, then make it safe, make it clean, make it beautiful, make it wonderful," he said. "Don't make it a s***hole, which is what she's done. And she can fix it in hours."

In a March 18 letter, sent to MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, Duffy requested the agency's statistics on assaults, fare evasion and subway surfing. In addition, federal officials has asked the MTA to give them documents of all the money spent on fare enforcement and safety in New York City subways.

The MTA said they had handed in the requested information by the March 31 deadline.

"The trend of violent crime, homelessness, and other threats to public safety on one of our nation's most prominent metro systems is unacceptable. After years of soft-on-crime policies, our Department is stepping in to restore order," Duffy said in a separate statement.

"People travelling on the subway system to reach their jobs, education, health care and other critical services need to feel secure and travel in a safe environment free of crime," the letter read. "... The transit riders and workers of New York City deserve nothing less."

Adams didn't disclose which subway station he would be taking Duffy to.

This is a developing story. This post will be updated.