7 Train

A 15-year-old suspected subway surfer suffered severe head trauma in a rush-hour accident aboard a 7 train in Queens Thursday and remained hospitalized in critical condition Friday, police said. Cops say they think the boy, who is from the same borough where the injury occurred, was riding on top of a southbound train and hit his head on an unknown…

A suspected subway surfer is in critical condition after an accident in Queens.

The subway slasher arrested over the weekend for a pair of unprovoked attacks that left his victims needing 36 stitches and two life-saving surgeries also struck at a bakery days prior, going after a man with a nail-embedded board, a criminal complaint says. Donny Ubiera, 32, faces charges of attempted murder, assault and other crimes in a string of unprovoked…

The man police say was behind two knife attacks in a less-than-24-hour span on the same subway line in Queens has been arrested. Donny Ubiera, 32, is allegedly responsible for sending two people to the hospital in the morning attacks within the city’s subway system, according to police officials. They’ve called both attacks unprovoked. After the second attack Saturday...

A trio of subway attacks has rattled riders in New York City after three people were slashed in 36 hours in what police call unprovoked attacks. News 4’s Chris Jose reports.

Authorities say they know who is behind two knife attacks within the span of 24 hours on the same subway line in Queens that sent two people to the hospital. After the second attack Saturday morning, the NYPD released photos of Donny Ubiera, 32, in hopes of getting help from the public in tracking down the alleged knife assailant. The…

Cops are looking for a man they say stabbed a rider aboard a subway in Queens during Friday’s morning rush, sending him to the hospital for treatment for facial and hand wounds, authorities say. The suspect has not been caught. It wasn’t clear if the two men had been involved in some kind of argument prior to the knife...

Subway service on the 7 line between Manhattan and Queens resumed Monday afternoon after a police investigation at Grand Central Terminal. The NYPD said officers responded to a platform around noon for a report of a suspicious package. Officials evacuated the platform as a precaution, police told News 4. Subway service between Manhattan and Queens was temporarily suspended for the…

The impact of the blow sent the 79-year-old flying backward into a wall and then to the ground, suffering a laceration to the back of his head in the process.

A 7 train making its way into Manhattan became stuck, stranding about 750 passengers Sunday afternoon for roughly two hours, this after it hit some sort of metal object, the MTA said. According to the transportation agency, the train came in contact with a metal object in the Steinway tube, under the East River, around 5:16 p.m. and that is…

Ida Siegal reports.

Police are looking for two men who allegedly stole wallets and phones from at least six sleeping straphangers along the No. 7 subway line in Queens and the Bronx over a two-month period, authorities said Friday. The pattern dates back to July 17, with the most recent theft happening on Sept. 20, police said. In each case, male subway riders…

Police are looking for two men who allegedly stole wallets and phones from at least six sleeping straphangers along the No. 7 subway line in a two-month period, authorities said Friday.

More than a dozen windows were found smashed on a 7 train late Friday night in Queens, transit officials said. Anjali Hemphill reports.

More than a dozen windows were found smashed on a 7 train late Friday night in Queens, transit officials said. It’s the latest incident in a costly and months-long string of destruction to MTA trains. At least 18 windows on the train were found smashed shortly before midnight at the 61st Street-Woodside Station, officials said. They estimate the damage will…

Hundreds of train car windows have been smashed since May, costing the MTA thousands and leaving them unable to replace the broken windows because of how many have been vandalized. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

More windows on the 7 train have been vandalized, adding to the possibility that subway service will be reduced because there aren’t enough replacement windows. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The MTA is ramping up its efforts to catch a serial vandal responsible for smashing hundreds of windows on the 7 train by offering a $10,000 reward leading to an arrest and indictment. Four more windows were smashed Sunday night, and authorities thought they had a primary suspect behind the vandalism. Police released a photo of the man they say…

The MTA could be forced to reduce subway service for the No. 7 train after rampant vandalism, according to sources. At least 200 windows on subway cars have had to be replaced since the start of August because they keep getting smashed, the Daily News first reported. Tracie Strahan with the story.

The MTA could be forced to reduce subway service for the No. 7 train after rampant vandalism, according to sources. NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.