{"id":931445,"date":"2026-07-13T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931445\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:48:33","slug":"brute-punches-straphanger-65-in-face-inside-nyc-subway-station-in-random-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931445\/","title":{"rendered":"Brute punches straphanger, 65, in face inside NYC subway station in random assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for a wacko who randomly punched a straphanger in the face inside a Queens subway station last week, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

A 65-year-old man was entering the turnstiles at the Sutphin Blvd-Archer Avenue subway station in Jamaica around 3:20 p.m. on Thursday when an unidentified individual approached him, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n

\"SurveillancePolice are searching for a suspect who punched a 65-year-old man in the face at the Sutphin Blvd-Archer Avenue subway station on Thursday. DCPI<\/p>\n

The stranger then slugged the man in the face and fled the scene on foot, cops said.<\/p>\n

The victim was taken to a local hospital by emergency responders in stable condition, police said. <\/p>\n

Cops released images of the suspect, who was wearing a white T-shirt, a green baseball cap, and a dark-colored backpack. <\/p>\n

\"NYCCops released images of the suspect, who was wearing a white T-shirt, a green baseball cap, and a dark-colored backpack. DCPI<\/p>\n

The alarming assault comes roughly a month after another 65-year-old man was shoved\u00a0onto a subway platform<\/a> while on board a northbound 1 train at the 28th Street station in the early hours of June 2.<\/p>\n

Authorities urged anyone with information about Thursday\u2019s incident to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a wacko who randomly punched a straphanger in the face inside a Queens subway…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":931446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10762,18155,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,28715,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-931445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-assault","tag-jamaica","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-subways","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116911336867068292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931445","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=931445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}