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NYC POLICE INVESTIGATE UNPROVOKED SUBWAY ATTACK AS SYSTEM SEES CRIME INCREASE

By Brittany Bernstein
February 19, 2024 6:59 PM
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NYPD officers patrol inside a subway station in Manhattan, October 29, 2022.
(Jeenah Moon/Reuters)

New York City police are investigating an unprovoked attack in which an
assailant repeatedly struck a man in the head with a metal pipe at a Queens
subway station. This was just the latest example of violent crime in the city’s
transit system.

The suspect attacked the 31-year-old victim at the Queensboro Plaza station just
before 1 a.m.  Saturday, police said, and then fled. The assault left the victim
unconscious; he was transported to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical
Center where he was treated for several lacerations on his head and was said to
be in stable condition. 



The incident comes as subway crime is up 22.6 percent since the start of the
year compared with the same period of time in 2023, police said.

Days earlier, a Brazilian tourist was stabbed in another unprovoked attack at
the Queens Plaza station. The assailant ran up behind the 29-year-old victim and
sliced his neck around 10:30 a.m.

On Wednesday afternoon, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the thigh at the Coney
Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn. The boy was transported to NYU
Langone Hospital where he was said to be in stable condition. That same day, a
homeless man punched a 58-year-old female MTA worker on a Lower Manhattan subway
platform. When a bystander stepped in to help, the homeless man attacked him,
too.

The day before that, a man was playing the electric cello in the mezzanine of
the Herald Square station when a woman walked up behind him and wordlessly hit
him over the head with his own metal water bottle.



New York City mayor Eric Adams and New York governor Kathy Hochul have deployed
additional police officers to oversee the subway system.

“With hundreds more officers surged into transit, 15,000 cameras in stations,
and thousands more cameras on trains assisting the NYPD, anyone breaking the law
in transit can count on getting caught. Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams’ Cops,
Cameras and Care initiative produced a drop in serious crimes overall last year.
It’s now up to prosecutors and the courts to ensure real consequences so the
same people aren’t free to keep coming back to prey on transit workers and
riders,” New York City Transit President Richard Davey said.   


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Brittany Bernstein is a news writer for National Review Online. @brittybernstein




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