MTA rips mayor on cops

The MTA’s Big Apple transit chief accused City Hall on Monday of hiding the number of cops in the subways — and slammed Mayor de Blasio for thinking more officers aren’t needed.

“We don’t have a solid number. We don’t have deployment information . . . because that information isn’t shared with us by City Hall,” interim NYC Transit President Sarah Feinberg said at a press briefing with Gov. Cuomo.

“I think it’s important to just do the math on how many uniformed officers we have in the system on any given day. It would be really useful to be shared with us so we can make our own decisions better.”

There were about 4,300 transit cops in the mid-1990s, but that number has fallen to about 2,000, give or take a couple of hundred more as crises erupt, according to the MTA, a public agency led by Cuomo appointees.

De Blasio has insisted the subways are safe amid a war of words over the issue involving Cuomo and the MTA on one side and the mayor and NYPD on the other — even as the number of felony assaults on transit soar.

“The mayor has said he doesn’t think additional policing is necessary, and the vast majority of our customers and certainly our leadership . . . are saying they absolutely want a more significant police presence,” Feinberg said.

Mayoral spokesman Bill Neidhardt fired back, saying of Feinberg’s criticism, “This is coming from someone who was so confused last week that they told the public that police had been withdrawn from the subways, when the exact opposite was true.”

The NYPD last week denied that the extra cops were being pulled.