{"id":531788,"date":"2026-01-21T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/531788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:36:19","slug":"4-attacked-in-separate-crimes-in-nyc-subways-in-just-over-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/531788\/","title":{"rendered":"4 attacked in separate crimes in NYC subways in just over a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were attacked \u2014 including an MTA worker and two teens \u2014 in separate incidents in the city subway system in just over 24 hours, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A ski-mask-wearing maniac first punched a transit worker in the face around 5:40 p.m. Sunday on the northbound No. 7 train platform at the 74th Street and Roosevelt Avenue stop in Jackson Heights, Queens, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The employee did not know his assailant, who snarled, \u201cDo you know me?\u201d before slugging the 46-year-old victim, authorities and law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A nut punched an MTA employee in the face inside a Jackson Heights subway station Sunday, cops said.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The transit worker\u2019s attacker had on a black ski mask and clear glasses at one point, cops said.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The suspect ran off. and the victim was taken to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The still-at-large menace had on a black ski mask at one point, clear glasses, a black jacket, black pants and black shoes, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The mayhem continued around 3 p.m. Monday, when an apparent stranger slashed a teen boy at another Queens subway station, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old victim was standing in the entrance to the Seneca Avenue M train station in Ridgewood when the brute knifed him in the back of the head, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A stranger slashed a 16-year-old boy Monday in Queens, too, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The attacker was still on the loose Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, during the Monday evening rush, another teen was stabbed and slashed during a brawl in a Bronx subway station, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old victim was fighting with a stranger, believed to be in his 30s, on the Freeman Street platform in Crotona Park East around 6:30 p.m. when the assailant stabbed him in the back and cut him on the neck and elbow, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, and the attacker fled the scene.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the pair was brawling about.<\/p>\n<p>About a half-hour later, a menace also knifed a 33-year-old man across the forehead during a violent dust-up in the Rockaway Avenue No. 3 train station in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where his injuries are considered non-life-threatening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, a stranger believed to be in his 20s, fled the scene and has not been caught, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The string of attacks came hours after a brutish stranger <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/us-news\/stranger-pushes-man-35-onto-nyc-train-tracks-in-second-random-subway-shove-of-2026-cops-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">randomly shoved a man<\/a> onto Brooklyn subway tracks early Sunday, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without saying a word, the suspect pushed the 35-year-old victim onto the roadbed at 36th Street in Sunset Park around 4:55 a.m., cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>That victim was helped back up onto the platform by responding cops, and he is listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were attacked \u2014 including an MTA worker and two teens \u2014 in separate incidents in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":531789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12937,1121,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,82992,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-531788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assaults","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-subway-slashings","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115932180219395143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531788","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=531788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}