Eric Adams says commuters feel “safer” on the subway after more cops have been added, despite recent incidents.

Hizzoner says the New York subway safety plan is on the right track.

Mayor Adams appeared on national and local morning talk shows Wednesday to say hangers are enjoying a “cleaner” and “safer” subway system, despite high-profile incidents such as the recent beating of a local meteorologist.

The Democrat appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and WABC’s “Sid & Friends In The Morning” to talk about the results of his subway safety initiative, which flooded the system with 1,200 cops in the fall.

Adams said most of the city’s 2.9 million subway passengers travel safely every day. Public transit crime is down 28% this year compared to last year, according to NYPD statistics, and cops have made six felony arrests on average, according to the NYPD.

“They say they feel more secure. They think it’s cleaner there,” Adams said on MSNBC, referring to the results of a yet-to-be-released MTA poll.

“They feel they are seeing fewer people with mental illness that they cannot take care of themselves. We have taken a very strong position: we are not going to lose sight of people who meet these criteria.”

The charm offensive continued on the air, where Adams said his new call for cops to arrest unbalanced people living in the system and take them to hospitals for psychiatric evaluation didn’t go far enough.

A new NYPD proposal to issue costly subpoenas to the homeless to get them off the subway system and into the criminal justice system was reviewed last week after Adam’s November initiative drew widespread criticism from advocates and at least one lawsuit. .

“You know what’s really hard? It’s when we see this homeless person and know he can’t take care of himself, some of our laws prevent us from doing forced removal, which is necessary,” Adams told radio personality Sid Rosenberg.

“Police officer[s] there is nothing we can do if a person is unattended, in our subway system and sitting in our subway system, and we know that person needs some extra {help].”

The mayor cited the recent attack on Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz, who police said was attacked by a group of teenagers while riding Train 1 in Manhattan early Saturday morning.

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Klotz said the beating began when he tried to stop the group from setting the man’s hair on fire. The three alleged attackers, aged between 15 and 17, were arrested and released because they were minors, police said.

“Sometimes when those terrible incidents happen, the accident that happened to the news reporter, sometimes when it happens and then we see a visible mess, we start to feel unsafe in the process,” Adams said.

“But these customer surveys say, ‘Hey, we like what we see. We liked how they made the subway security plan. We are moving in the right direction.”

Officials did not immediately respond to a request to view a customer satisfaction survey championed by the mayor.