{"id":144507,"date":"2026-02-25T03:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144507\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:47:39","slug":"slew-of-nyc-subway-vandalism-ahead-of-snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144507\/","title":{"rendered":"Slew of NYC subway vandalism ahead of snow day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suspected vandals broke into a parked B train<\/a> in the Bronx on Sunday night, one of several subway vandalism incidents reported on the eve of Monday\u2019s blizzard.<\/p>\n

Sources tell the Daily News the unidentified trespassers broke into the train while it was parked on the express track at the 174th-175th St. station in Tremont and moved it a few car lengths.<\/p>\n

Somehow, sources said, the vandals also damaged a master door controller \u2014 the control panel that allows a train operator or conductor to open and close the train\u2019s doors.<\/p>\n

The trespassers, described as \u201ckids\u201d by sources, were seen on the train by a transit worker, but fled before they could be confronted.<\/p>\n

An MTA spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about the train\u2019s condition and whether it was still in service.<\/p>\n

Sources told The News the break-in was one of several apparent vandalism incidents in the subway system between Sunday night and Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Graffiti was reportedly found overnight on parked subway trains at the underground 174th St. Yard in Washington Heights serving the C train, as well as at the 240th St. Yard of the No. 1 train near Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Sources also told The News a number of trains parked on a layup track near the Bowery station of the J and Z trains on the Lower East Side were tagged Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Trespassers, especially young ones, breaking into parked trains has become a persistent issue plaguing the subway system in recent years.<\/p>\n

Two months ago, a thief stole the control stick from an R train<\/a> parked under southern Brooklyn \u2014 the same section of track where a repeat train thief recklessly threw a train in reverse<\/a> during a joyride months earlier.<\/p>\n

A teenage crew gained notoriety in January 2025 for breaking into a pair of R trains<\/a> and moving them at speeds up to 30 mph along a section of express track in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspected vandals broke into a parked B train in the Bronx on Sunday night, one of several subway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144508,"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":["post-144507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144507","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=144507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}