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A look at acts of public violence in NYC over past 40 years

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the St. Charles County Department of Corrections in St. Charles, Mo., shows Sayfullo Saipov. Saipov, a New Jersey man allegedly drove a truck down a bicycle path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Halloween, killing eight people and injuring numerous others. The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence. (St. Charles County, Mo., Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP, File) FILE -Ahmad Khan Rahimi, the man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York in September, injuring more than 30 people, is led into court Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, in Elizabeth, N.J. The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) FILE - Colin Ferguson, center, who was been charged in the Long Island Rail Road commuter train shooting rampage, is led into a courtroom by officers at for a procedural hearing at the Nassau County Court House, Friday, Dec. 17, 1993, Uniondale, N.Y. The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence. (AP Photo/Mike Albans, File) FILE -Detectives take Bernard Goetz to his arraignment Thursday, March 23, 1985 in New York. Goetz was charged in the subway shootings of four youths, who allegedly accosted him and asked for money. The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence. (AP Photo/Mitchell Tapper, File) FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2017, file photo, a Bangladeshi man reads a national newspaper whose front page shows the news of 27-year-old Bangladeshi man Akayed Ullah, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2017, Ullah used Christmas lights, matches and a nine-volt battery to ignite a pipe bomb under Times Square's subway station but the bomb, which was strapped to the bombers chest, failed to launch, minorly injuring three people and severely burning the bomber. The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File) New York City Police, left, and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, 62, center, away from a police station, in New York, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. The man accused of shooting multiple people on a Brooklyn subway train was arrested Wednesday and charged with a federal terrorism offense. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) A passenger looks out onto the platform while riding a northbound train in 36th Street subway station where a shooting attack occurred the previous day during the morning commute, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in New York. Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that officials were now seeking 62-year-old Frank R. James as a suspect. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Emergency personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Multiple people were shot and injured Tuesday at a subway station in New York City during a morning rush hour attack that left wounded commuters bleeding on a train platform. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)