NYPD PLANS TO WAKE SLEEPING SUBWAY PASSENGERS

Even in the city that never sleeps, there’s at least one place New Yorkers value a little shut- eye.

On late- night and early- morning subway rides, it’s common to see passengers dozing off on the way home. But Police Commissioner William Bratton is sounding the alarm. More than half of all subway crime in the past year involved a sleeping victim. And now he’s instructing police officers to wake sleeping passengers in an effort to keep them safe.

But Bratton’s shake- and- wake plan isn’t sitting well with some passengers.

At New York’s Pennsylvania Station on Thursday, subway passenger Yvette Johnson called the idea “ridiculous.”

“Sometimes you just can’ t stay awake,” she said. “You come home late and you just need a quick nap.”