QUEENS – A 55-year-old man was punched repeatedly and robbed onboard a NYC subway train in Queens, the NYPD said. The attack happened on Saturday, June 22, around 7:30 a.m. near Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike on a southbound F train approaching the Kew Gardens subway station. According to police, the victim was approached by […]
A 39-year-old man was slashed in the face during a clash with another commuter at the Fulton St. subway station, police said. The victim was waiting at the A/C platform inside the station near Broadway at about 1:20 a.m. earl Saturday when he began arguing with another man. The two quickly came to blows, witnesses […]
NEW YORK — A vigilante posing as an NYPD cop pepper-sprayed a tourist he caught entering a Manhattan subway station without paying the fare, police said Thursday. The bizarre incident sparked off 6:35 p.m. Sunday at the Whitehall St.-South Ferry station on the uptown R train platform. The vigilante saw the family enter the station […]
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A 40-year-old man was stabbed to death inside a subway station in New York City, police said. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) confirmed with Fox News Digital that law enforcement responded to a 911 call at a subway station in Washington Heights at 6 p.m. on Friday evening. Authorities said that stabbing happened […]
An argument inside a Manhattan subway station ended with a man being brutally stabbed to death Friday. Police responding to a 911 call found the 40-year-old victim bleeding from multiple stab wounds to the torso and neck, near the turnstiles at the 175th St. A train subway station near Fort Washington Ave. in Washington Heights […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul to ban masks on the New York subway is drawing backlash from civil liberties groups and disability advocates, reviving a long-standing debate about the right to anonymous protest that has only grown more complex since the pandemic. Hochul, a Democrat, backed the idea this […]
Police nabbed the unhinged man who hurled a racial slur — and a can of beans — at a Muslim woman in an unprovoked attack at an Upper East Side subway station, cops said. Andre Johnson, 36, of Stuyvesant Town, was arrested Thursday in Manhattan and hit with charges including attempted assault in the third […]
A 30-year-old man was slashed in the hand as he fought off two men at a Greenwich Village subway station early Saturday, police said. The assault comes as attacks in the city’s transit system have dropped by 11% this year. The victim was on E. 8th St. near Broadway about 4:20 a.m. when he got […]
UNION SQUARE, Manhattan (PIX11) — Pro-Palestinian protesters took over a crowded subway train in Manhattan on Monday, asking riders, “Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist,” according to a video. The incident happened on the No. 5 train in the Union Square subway station at around 8:10 p.m., according to the NYPD. Many of the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City subway station would be renamed to commemorate the Stonewall riots that galvanized the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, under legislation approved by state lawmakers as they wrapped up their session this month. The state Legislature approved a bill Wednesday directing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to change the name […]
The disturbed homeless man accused of setting a stranger on fire onboard a Manhattan subway train was ordered held on $250,000 bail Monday — as prosecutors revealed it was a flaming can of alcohol he hurled. Nile Taylor, 49, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court for both the attack over the weekend and a similar […]