{"id":948951,"date":"2026-07-21T04:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948951\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:48:27","slug":"fiends-beat-rob-sleeping-straphanger-on-nyc-subway-train-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948951\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiends beat, rob sleeping straphanger on NYC subway train: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crew of ruffians all decked out in black brutally attacked and robbed a man sleeping aboard a Manhattan subway train last week, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Cops said the three fiends approached the 32-year-old victim while he was getting some shut-eye on a southbound 4 train near Union Square around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the three fiends approached the 32-year-old man while he was getting some shut-eye on a southbound 4 train near Union Square around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0 NYPD<\/p>\n<p>One of the sickos then approached the sleeping man and began punching him throughout his body \u2013 and after that jacked his cellphone, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>One of the brutes then started wailing on the sleeping man \u2013 and after that jacked his cellphone, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The cowards then ran off into the wind, but not before trying to take the man\u2019s watch, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the man to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he\u2019s in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the three fiends approached the 32-year-old man while he was getting some shut-eye on a southbound 4 train near Union Square around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0 Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Cops said they\u2019re looking for young men between the ages of 18 and 25 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictures released by cops show them dressed in shady, all-black outfits, with two of the fiends covering their faces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said they\u2019re looking for young men between the ages of 18 and 25 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictures cops released of the brutes show them dressed in shady, all-black outfits, with two covering their faces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cowards then ran off into the wind after the attack, but not before trying to take the man\u2019s watch, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!F0Stn7g!D8Or3OpFrHjLw6wiM4HoOMQOi3bW388ApezdERleMRBzNkhVkmg3DOHtFQz-URcWJFyYskuusc3fBut07-g$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crew of ruffians all decked out in black brutally attacked and robbed a man sleeping aboard a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,5249,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,28714,67577,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-948951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-subway","tag-union-square","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\/116956161910880654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948951","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=948951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}