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Authorities are looking for a man spotted combing his beard with a knife and masturbating next to a woman on a rush-hour train Friday morning, police say. The 31-year-old woman was on a northbound E train around 8:40 a.m. when she noticed the man standing over her, combing his beard with a knife while touching his genitals, at the Forest…

A 54-year-old Manhattan man has pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime for shoving and hurling homophobic slurs at a woman as she road a subway last year, the Queens district attorney’s office said Thursday.

A well-known, well-respected NYPD deputy chief took his own life Wednesday after spending nearly four decades serving New York City

For the second straight weekday, MTA riders’ evening commute was delayed thanks to a tech problem with the transit authority.

Due to a switch malfunction, the MTA announced mass transit disruptions on various subway lines Monday during the afternoon rush. Rana Novini reports.

A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter — and the court tacked on another 23 years for his vicious attack on the child’s twin sister in Westchester County.

A well-known, well-respected Deputy Chief who spent nearly 40 years in the NYPD was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Queens Wednesday night. NBC 4 New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A mother who was beaten on a train after her 8-year-old son asked her why another child on the train was wearing a costume said her attacker hit her so hard that her “feet lifted off the floor.”

A Queens mom who was attacked on the subway after her young son asked an innocent question about another subway rider is speaking out in an exclusive interview with Marc Santia.

A mother of a young boy was beaten after police say her son asked her why the child of one of the attacker’s was wearing a costume.

Police say the two women seen in the video attacked a 50-year-old mother on the subway in Queens.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in Forest Hills. Michael George reports.

Eight therapists allegedly stole more than $600,000 by billing for therapy sessions with developmentally disabled children that never actually took place, prosecutors said.

Eight therapists — two of them New York City teachers — allegedly stole more than $600,000 over the course of six years by billing for therapy sessions with developmentally disabled children that never actually took place, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said. Andrew Siff reports.

Federal agents and state police opened fire on a heroin mill delivery suspect after he allegedly rammed officers’ vehicles when cornered on the West Side Highway Thursday in connection with an ongoing drug investigation, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation tells News 4.

Federal agents and state police opened fire on a heroin mill delivery suspect after he allegedly rammed officers’ vehicles when cornered on the West Side Highway Thursday in connection with an ongoing drug investigation, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation tells News 4. Jonathan Dienst reports.

A man harassing a woman on the subway in Queens on Wednesday stabbed another man who tried to intervene, law enforcement sources say.

An argument involving a bridal party and a hotel guest ended when the guest allegedly used a sword to threaten the women and slash the bride on the arm, authorities say.

Authorities are looking for a man in his 60s who allegedly grabbed an MTA subway conductor by his collar as he was in the train cab at a Bronx station, punched him in the face and ran off.