{"id":113734,"date":"2026-01-27T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113734\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:22:15","slug":"man-bitten-by-dog-in-union-square-subway-station-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113734\/","title":{"rendered":"Man bitten by dog in Union Square subway station, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/untitled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">UNION SQUARE &#8211; A man reportedly commanded his dog to attack a 54-year-old inside the Union Square subway station last weekend, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>   Man allegedly sics dog on victim <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The 54-year-old man and the suspect got into a verbal dispute over the suspect&#8217;s dog at 5:20 p.m. on Jan. 24.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police officials say the suspect allegedly slapped the victim in the face before removing his dog&#8217;s muzzle; he then ordered his dog to attack the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The dog bit the victim&#8217;s left hand, leaving him with several lacerations, according to the NYPD. EMS took the victim to NYU Langone Tisch Hospital, where he was reported to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The suspect fled with his dog. He was last seen wearing a black hat, camouflage jacket and blue jeans.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/untitled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The identities of both the victim and suspect are currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The location of the suspect is also not known.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information provided by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/nyc-subway\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Subway<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article UNION SQUARE &#8211; A man reportedly commanded his dog to attack a 54-year-old inside the Union Square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[850,9,11,10,12,849,848],"class_list":{"0":"post-113734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nyc-subway","14":"tag-organization"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113734","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=113734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}