{"id":132177,"date":"2026-02-13T05:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132177\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:29:08","slug":"yeshiva-university-student-20-attacked-by-masked-thugs-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132177\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeshiva University student, 20, attacked by &#8216;masked thugs&#8217; in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Yeshiva University student was attacked by several \u201cmasked thugs\u201d in a Washington Heights subway station on Thursday night, according to school officials and authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 7 p.m., police responded to a 911 call about an assault at the West 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue 1 train stop, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old student of the private Jewish university was punched and kicked by four unidentified individuals, according to police and Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, a clinical assistant professor of Jewish values at Yeshiva\u2019s Sy Syms School of Business.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38478762\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/police-scene-person-slashed-number-15255634.jpg\" alt=\"A Yeshiva University student was attacked by several \u201cmasked thugs\u201d at the 1 train station at 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights on Feb. 12, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-38478762\"  \/>A Yeshiva University student was attacked by several \u201cmasked thugs\u201d at the 1 train station at 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights on Feb. 12, 2026, which is seen in a file photo.  Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Yeshiva University student was violently assaulted tonight by a gang of masked thugs,\u201d Bashevkin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DBashIdeas\/status\/2022118187920224364\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote in a post on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is beyond frightening for a visibly Jewish community in NYC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Columbia University Irving Medical Center in stable condition, police added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38478896\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HA_-KQoWsAAdc0P.jpg\" alt=\"The 20-year-old student was punched and kicked by four unidentified individuals, according to police and Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin.\" class=\"wp-image-38478896\"  \/>The 20-year-old student was punched and kicked by four unidentified individuals, according to police and Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin. X\/DBashIdeas<\/p>\n<p>The university said the attack was not believed to be motivated by bias.<\/p>\n<p>Yeshiva University wrote, \u201cone of our students was assaulted in an unbiased attempted robbery off campus in the subway station at 181st Street\u201d in an alert sent out to students<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/gang-of-masked-thugs-reportedly-attacks-yeshiva-university-student-in-nyc-subway-station\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> obtained by JNS<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>The Post has reached out to Yeshiva University for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis evening at approximately 7 p.m., one of our students was assaulted in an unbiased attempted robbery off campus in the subway station at 181st Street,\u201d a Yeshiva University spokesperson told The Post in a statement. \u201cHe is back on campus in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYU Security is aware of the incident and is coordinating with law enforcement authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as of Thursday evening. The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Yeshiva University student was attacked by several \u201cmasked thugs\u201d in a Washington Heights subway station on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5357,57,9,56,63,65,64,1687,58,52385],"class_list":["post-132177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-attacks","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subways","tag-us-news","tag-yeshiva-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177","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=132177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}