subway crimes

In an extended and exclusive interview with NBC New York’s Melissa Russo, victim Nina Rothschild recalls every moment of the horrifying attack that shook NYC, and shares more about her road to recovery, her feelings about her attacker, if she plans on taking the subway again soon, and why she’s eager to get back to work.

NBC New York’s Melissa Russo talks about her exclusive interview with Nina Rothschild — the woman who was beaten with a hammer inside a Queens subway station, and left fighting for her life. She is now recovering and sharing her story — see the full interview on News 4 at 11 p.m.

Nina Rothschild, savagely beaten on her way home from work in February by a hammer-wielding attacker who left her for dead on the stairs of a Queens subway station, told NBC New York in an exclusive interview that she remembers “basically the entire thing from start to finish”

New York City police arrested 143 people in the city’s subways and removed 455 people from trains and stations in the first week of a crackdown on crime and the presence of homeless people in the transit system. Mayor Eric Adams’ office said the arrests and removals came as officers were enforcing subway rules barring smoking, drinking, sleeping across train…

Stabbings throughout the city’s transit system drew special attention as New York prepared to enact a brand new safety plan on Monday aimed at curbing rising violence in the subways. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams stood with NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Friday morning at a Manhattan subway station and took the wraps off a new plan to combat transit crime in the city. At least 5 people were stabbed in the subway system in just over 24 hours since then. A sixth person was stabbed Sunday evening on the 6 line…

Platform barrier doors are used in major transit hubs like London and Tokyo, though many in this country more frequently see them in in places like airports. The idea of using them in NYC is not new, but the transit agency said it just won’t work.

Safety advocates say that adding platform barrier doors — seen in transit hubs like London and many U.S. airports — can help save people from ending up on subway tracks, and it’s not a new idea. But the MTA said that the idea wouldn’t work. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

The homeless man accused of shoving a 40-year-old Asian woman into the path of an oncoming subway in Times Square, an apparently unprovoked horror that stirred national outrage, used both hands to push the victim, according to a criminal complaint unveiled at the defendant’s arraignment on Wednesday. Michelle Alyssa Go had been standing on the Q/R platform near 42nd...

NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

The deadly push of a 40-year-old Asian woman onto subway tracks in Times Square, an apparently unprovoked horror that stirred national outrage, shouldn’t have happened, MTA officials said Tuesday as they talked of the need for more police and other resources in the transit system to address the mentally ill. The MTA addressed the killing of Michelle Alyssa Go...

Police say they have the man in custody who pushed 40-year-old Michelle Go into the path of an oncoming train at Times Square that took the New Yorker’s life. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are teaming up with a new plan to address safety concerns in the subway system. Melissa Russo reports.

A man has died after he was stabbed inside a New York City subway station early Monday, police said. Romney Smith reports.

A man has died after he was stabbed inside a New York City subway station early Monday, police said. The NYPD says the unidentified victim and the stabbing suspect got into some sort of fight on the mezzanine at 241 Street Station in the Bronx around 12:45 a.m. The suspect, who police described as a man wearing an orange and…

A man has died after he was stabbed inside a New York City subway station early Monday, police said.

The man police believe to be responsible for violently kicking a woman in the chest, sending her falling down an escalator at a Brooklyn subway station, has been arrested.

NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The NYPD is searching for an individual they say entered a drive-thru window in the Bronx and stole money — a crime that was caught on surveillance video.

Police say a man kicked a 32-year-old woman down the escalator at a Brooklyn subway station last week following an argument. Authorities are now searching for the suspect who was seen on surveillance video going up the escalator at Barclays Center on Sept. 9. The video shows him turning around to kick the victim in her chest, sending her tumbling…