{"id":106094,"date":"2026-01-20T18:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106094\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:08:25","slug":"man-punches-mta-subway-operator-in-face-in-queens-asked-do-you-know-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106094\/","title":{"rendered":"Man punches MTA subway operator in face in Queens; asked, &#8216;Do you know me?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD is looking for leads to track down a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/09\/mta-worker-attacked-same-brooklyn-subway-station-man-was-beaten-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">punched a subway operator<\/a> in the face on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old MTA employee was on the platform at the 74th St.-Broadway No. 7 train station in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/15\/working-families-party-backs-brian-romero-in-ny-assembly-race-in-potential-rift-with-mamdani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Heights<\/a> when a man approached him, demanding, \u201cDo you know me?\u201d a source told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator then proceeded to punch the train motorman in the face before fleeing on foot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was last seen wearing a black ski mask, a black jacket, black pants, black shoes and glasses, police said. The train operator suffered minor injuries in the attack.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The suspect was last seen wearing a black ski mask, a black jacket, black pants, black shoes and glasses, police said. (NYPD)\" width=\"984\" height=\"1105\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RMA-169-26-Assault-115-Pct-TD-20-1-18-26-Photo-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8673531\" \/>The suspect was last seen wearing a black ski mask, a black jacket, black pants, black shoes and glasses, police said. (NYPD)<\/p>\n<p>The assault is the latest in a spate of attacks on transit workers. An angry straphanger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/15\/subway-conductor-punched-in-the-face-by-queens-passenger-angry-over-train-route\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clocked a conductor in Far Rockaway on Thursday<\/a>, apparently enraged he\u2019d missed his stop.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twulocal100.org\/node\/108509\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Transport Workers Union reported<\/a> that another train conductor had been shot with rubber BB pellets while working on a No. 6 train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is looking for leads to track down a man who punched a subway operator in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,122,124,123,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-106094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-county","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106094","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=106094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}