Subway violence

The NYPD is searching for a 14-year-old suspect following a stabbing early Thursday on a subway train in midtown Manhattan sending two victims to the hospital, police said. The attack happened on a southbound ‘Q’ train at the 42nd Street-Times Square station around 6:54 a.m. Thursday, according to the NYPD. Police said a 24-year-old man was stabbed in his left…

A woman was sentenced to more than a decade behind bars after she threw acid in a subway rider’s face during an unprovoked attack at a Brooklyn station, according to the Brooklyn district attorney.

The man stabbed in a Lower East Side subway station Wednesday morning was 34-year-old Anthony Chávez, who spoke to NBC New York hours after he was attacked at the Delancey Street-Essex Street station. The victim said he was sleeping in the mezzanine area just before 5:30 a.m. when it happened, and isn’t sure why he was targeted.

Scary surveillance video shows a man following a woman from Brooklyn to Queens, then run after her on the street. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A man was hit in the head with a glass beer bottle at a busy Manhattan subway station after his attacker has asked him for money, according to a senior police official.

In a seemingly random attack, a person was shoved onto the tracks at the Lexington Avenue-125th Street station as a northbound train was approaching. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A person was killed at a busy East Harlem subway station after being pushed onto the tracks as a train was approaching, police sources said.

A man who became a victim in one of the recent incidents of violence on the New York City subways spoke to NBC New York’s Marc Santia about what he experienced.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams discussed the new safety plan for the city’s subways, including how it could impact New Yorkers’ commutes, how a ban on riders convicted of transit crimes would work, and how the city intends to fund the plan without any help from the state.

The governor’s plan includes hundreds of members of the National Guard, MTA agents and state police assisting with ramped up bag checks. The governor also pushing for bans on violent repeat offenders and new cameras inside conductor cabins. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

A suspect was arrested and charged with hate crimes in connection with a slashing aboard the subway in Manhattan in which he made anti-LGBTQ remarks toward the victim, according to police.

Two more commuters were attacked in separate subway stations, the first in Queens and the second on the Upper East Side. The news comes ahead of a major safety announcement from Gov. Kathy Hochul aimed at keeping riders safe. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

One person was hospitalized after an attack at a Queens subway station by a man wielding a metal object who had been threatening customers, according to law enforcement sources.

A 61-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach aboard a subway in the Bronx, according to two law enforcement sources.

The victim was reportedly stabbed once in the abdomen ahead of the evening rush. 

An MTA conductor was doused with a “foreign substance” on a train in the Bronx, police said, in what is the latest violent attack that has taken place in the city’s subway system. The incident occurred on a southbound 4 train Monday shortly before 7:15 p.m. when an unruly passenger threw the unknown substance at the 48-year-old conductor at the…

A passenger on a southbound 4 train threw an unknown substance onto the train conductor, in the latest violent incident to take place in the city’s subway system. Romney Smith reports.

Police are hunting for the person who slashed a tourist from Spain in the neck at the Queens Plaza subway station. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

Gunfire erupted soon after, leaving one person dead and five injured on the elevated train platform, an NYPD spokesperson said, adding that the victims appeared to be teens. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports. 

No arrests had yet been made and the shooter was still on the run, a police spokesperson said. The suspects took off running on Mt. Eden Avenue. News 4’s Jonathan Dienst reports.