So Joanne, can you tell me how you feel about the subway right now?

Mary, that's a whole lot of question there.

Joanne, you, lives in New York City.

My feelings about the subways that I rarely take the subway. I am very nervous.

Joanne's nervous, because the subways are kind of a strange place to be right now.

There aren't as many commuters as there used to be.

And a few weeks back, there was a string of violent attacks.

I used to love the subway.

And, you know, I'm one of those, you know, people on the subway,

whoever sits down next to me, I'm going to make you talk to me.

We're going to have a conversation. Now, instead of chatting, Joanne is on high alert. You're underground. You are, you know,

sometimes the ride from one station to the next is a long, long ride. And you're basically in a little metal box.

One more thing to know about Joanne. She's Asian. In fact, she's the executive director

of New York's Asian American Federation, which means that for the last two years,

she's been counting up one attack after another.

Well, it's horrific senseless attack has many subway riders, understandably on edge. Police say 40-year-old Michelle Alyssa Goh was shoved onto

the tracks in front of an oncoming New York City subway train at the 42nd Street Times Square

Station on Saturday. Over night, a growing makeshift memorial in front of a New York City apartment building

honoring Christina Una Lee after police say a man followed her home and attacked her,

stabbing her to death.

Between 2020 and 2021, one advocacy group tallied up nearly 11,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans.

And it's hard not to feel like these attacks are getting more brutal, not less.

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