{"id":101672,"date":"2026-01-15T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:30:09","slug":"crazed-nyc-commuter-brutally-punches-subway-conductor-causing-him-to-hit-head-on-cabin-wall-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101672\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazed NYC commuter brutally punches subway conductor, causing him to hit head on cabin wall: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed commuter punched an MTA conductor so hard that he hit his head on the wall of a subway train \u2014 during a brutal attack in Queens early Thursday, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The maniac slugged the 37-year-old transit worker in the face on board a Manhattan-bound A train passing through Beach 25th Street in Far Rockaway around 1:30 a.m., after exchanging words with him, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n<p>The blow was so forceful that the conductor hit his head on the train cabin wall, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43820225;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38194839\" width=\"849\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/far-rockaway-mott-av-train-118979045.jpg\" alt=\"Far Rockaway-Mott Av A train station\" class=\"wp-image-38194839\"  \/>The maniac slugged the 37-year-old transit worker in the face on board a Manhattan-bound A train passing through Beach 25th Street, cops and sources said. Google<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to St. John\u2019s Episcopal Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The male attacker, last seen wearing a black coat, ran off after the attack and remained on the loose, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38194842\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mta-worker-court-square-queens-84570056.jpg\" alt=\"The maniac exchanged words with the 37-year-old transit worker on board a Manhattan-bound A train passing through Beach 25th Street in Far Rockaway around 1:30 a.m. before slugging him in the face, according to authorities and sources.\" class=\"wp-image-38194842\"  \/>The forceful punch caused the worker to hit his head on the train cabin wall, police said. Robert Miller<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransit employees simply doing their jobs should never be subject to such outrageous and unacceptable attacks,\u201d NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our vast camera network, we are confident our law enforcement partners will find the person responsible who then must face justice for their reprehensible actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed commuter punched an MTA conductor so hard that he hit his head on the wall of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37611,303,3109,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,122,1687,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-101672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-conductor","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-far-rockaway","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-mta","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-subways","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}