{"id":72570,"date":"2025-07-18T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72570\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:00:30","slug":"man-51-clinging-to-life-after-hes-punched-in-face-at-nyc-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72570\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 51, clinging to life after he&#8217;s punched in face at NYC subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old commuter is clinging to life Thursday after he was punched in the face by another straphanger during rush hour at a Times Square <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/07\/14\/subway-ridership-continues-to-rise-five-years-out-from-covid-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subway<\/a> station, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was inside the 42nd St.-Times Square station on the mezzanine above the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/n-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">N\/Q\/R<\/a> platform Wednesday around 6:45 p.m. when he got into an argument with another man, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>During the argument, the other man punched the victim in the face, sending him reeling back onto the station floor, witnesses told police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim struck his head on the floor and was rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where he remained in critical condition, on life support Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker ran out of the station and was being sought by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recovering surveillance footage<\/a> from the station in the hopes of identifying the assailant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old commuter is clinging to life Thursday after he was punched in the face by another straphanger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-72570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114874130440499371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72570","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=72570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}