{"id":1030896,"date":"2026-08-29T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030896\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:05:38","slug":"queens-bus-driver-punched-in-the-face-in-another-attack-on-an-mta-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030896\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens bus driver punched in the face in another attack on an MTA worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; <\/strong>A bus driver was pummeled in the face last weekend in another attack on an MTA worker, police said Friday as they searched for a suspect.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a 49-year-old man, was on duty in Long Island City around 11:30 a.m. Saturday when he was attacked in a dispute with a woman.<\/p>\n<p>She allegedly punched him multiple times in the face and then broke the rear window of the bus before fleeing on foot near Vernon Boulevard and 38th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>EMS responded and transported the victim to Mount Sinai Queens in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>News of the attack comes just a day after police said they were searching for a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/1010wins\/news\/local\/mta-worker-suffers-severe-laceration-in-stabbing-at-times-square-subway-station-police\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stabbed an MTA worker<\/a> at the Times Square subway station on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old victim suffered a \u201csevere\u201d laceration in the attack. He has since been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on the stabbing, Bill Amarosa Jr., an executive vice president at NYC Transit, said \u201cit\u2019s unacceptable that someone would attack a transit worker doing their job to improve the lives of New York subway riders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank goodness that cleaner appears to be recovering rapidly-and thanks to the NYPD for aggressively investigating,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cTransit cameras captured the perpetrator on video, and when he&#8217;s apprehended the justice system should make sure maximum consequences are delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A bus driver was pummeled in the face last weekend in another attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1030897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,65401,5293,5257,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1030896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-buses","tag-nyc-crime","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117178710553609657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}