Norton Blake, the hulking brute who allegedly beat a disabled woman during a savage subway attack in Manhattan last month, told cops he stripped off his belt to “defend himself” against his walker-bound victim before he thrashed her with it.
The figures, revealed at the MTA’s monthly board meeting Monday, show decreases in all five of the seven major crime categories – except from murders, which are even, and burglaries, which increased by six – in the Big Apple’s subway system between January and August.