{"id":186854,"date":"2025-08-30T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186854\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:35:22","slug":"stranger-slashes-man-21-in-unprovoked-attack-on-nyc-subway-train-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186854\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger slashes man, 21, in unprovoked attack on NYC subway train: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stranger slashed a 21-year-old man in the face in an unprovoked attack on board a Bronx train late Thursday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was riding a southbound No. 6 train passing through the Zerega Avenue station around 11:45 p.m. when a maniac randomly cut him on the left side of the face with a sharp object, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacker got off the train, leaving the wounded man on board, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43820225;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36970647\" width=\"849\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/100-transit-workers-union-subway-20030732.jpg\" alt=\"A general view of subway trains and straphangers wearing face masks at Grand Central Terminal in New York, NY on November 21, 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-36970647\"  \/>A brute randomly slashed a 21-year-old man on his face on board a southbound No.. 6 train passing through Zerega Avenue, cops said.  Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>The victim got off the train at the next stop, Castle Hill Avenue, where he called 911 and officers responded, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacker \u2013 who sources describe as a man in his 20s with braids, wearing a black hoodie and standing about 5-foot-5 \u2013 fled the scene and had not been caught by Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.64630225;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36970648\" width=\"971\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/21-year-old-man-slashed-110294550.jpg\" alt=\"The victim was riding a southbound No. 6 train passing through the Zerega Avenue station around 11:45 p.m. when a maniac randomly cut him on the left side of the face with a sharp object, police said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-36970648\"  \/>The attacker fled the victim was hospitalized in stable condition, police said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The unprovoked attack came two days after another unhinged man <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/27\/us-news\/maniac-shoves-punches-man-85-in-unprovoked-attack-at-nyc-subway-station-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shoved and pummeled <\/a>an 85-year-old straphanger inside a Brooklyn subway station Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The octogenarian was waiting for a Manhattan-bound J train at Broadway Junction around 11:15 a.m. when a complete stranger \u2013 later identified as Jeffrey Joseph, 39 \u2013 randomly pushed, punched and kicked him, authorities and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joseph was arrested and charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranger slashed a 21-year-old man in the face in an unprovoked attack on board a Bronx train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10762,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,82992,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-subway-slashings","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115116803910809056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186854","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=186854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}