Gov. Kathy Hochul is still scrambling to lock down money for her $154 million surge of NYPD on overnight subway trains, even as the first wave of cops hit the tunnels this week. Only half the cash needed for the six-month surge is lined up — and Hochul asked for the remaining $77 million in the budget plan she unveiled Tuesday.

Gov. Hochul said the state will be paying to put police on every overnight subway train for the next six months, “to reduce crime and the fear of crime” in the city’s mass

Gov. Hochul’s plan to put police on every overnight subway train starts next week, she told reporters Thursday.