transit crime

In another brutal unprovoked attack in the New York City transit system, a subway custodian was bashed in the face with a metal pipe while the worker was simply trying to do her job.

In another brutal unprovoked attack in the New York City transit system, a subway custodian was bashed in the face with a metal pipe while the worker was simply trying to do her job.

Leonor Fama was randomly attacked by a man with a metal pipe while cleaning a subway train last Friday, Marc Santia reports.

A woman was attacked by a man with a metal pipe as she cleaned the Chambers Street station during a morning rush last week, authorities say.

Another day, another random attack in the New York City subway system. If it feels like deja vu, you’re not alone. The seemingly daily series of unprovoked transit crimes continued Friday in Manhattan, where police say a 43-year-old rider was stabbed in the back at Harlem’s 125th Street station for no apparent reason at all. The straphanger was attacked...

Police are investigating yet another subway stabbing, this time in Harlem.

People shoved in front of trains. Good Samaritans stabbed. Sucker punches to the head. A samurai Sword. Random attacks — and homicides — in New York City’s transit system have New Yorkers on edge in recent weeks, despite assurances from the mayor and governor that subways are safe. More unprovoked attacks in the days since a new safety initiative rolled…

Police are looking for a man who randomly threw a woman down a flight of stairs at a Queens subway station Sunday.

New York City is investigating yet another subway attack Wednesday — one that left a good Samaritan stabbed twice as the morning rush got underway. It comes days after city and state leaders rolled out a new transit safety plan intended to reassure riders amid an escalating series of violent crimes in the system. Police say the victim in the…

Romney Smith reports on all the updates you need to know about the subway plan.

The woman charged in the Sunday night incident has been charged with murder and manslaughter after a man was stabbed to death. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The search is on for the people accused of stabbing and killing a man on an MTA bus in the Bronx. News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Police have arrested one of the suspects allegedly involved in the deadly stabbing of a 55-year-old man on an MTA bus in the Bronx, authorities said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the city’s transit system. The victim, identified as Lamont Barkley of Davidson Avenue, was on a BX19 at Gerard Avenue and East 149th Street...

The death is just the latest to happen during an attack in the city’s transit system.