{"id":157287,"date":"2026-03-08T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157287\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:10:14","slug":"maniac-randomly-shoves-two-strangers-onto-nyc-subway-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157287\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac randomly shoves two strangers onto NYC subway tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A maniac randomly shoved two straphangers \u2013 including an 83-year-old man \u2013 onto Upper East Side subway tracks just before noon Sunday, cops and law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly victim and a 31-year-old man were separately waiting for a train at the Lexington Avenue\u201363rd Street station in Manhattan around 11:40 a.m. when the fiend came up from behind and thrust the two onto the rails below, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38713320\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/subway-shover-comp.jpg\" alt=\"People waiting for and riding a subway train at the Lexington Av-63 St station.\" class=\"wp-image-38713320\"  \/>A maniac randomly shoved two straphangers \u2013 including an 83-year-old man \u2013 onto Upper East Side subway tracks, cops said. <\/p>\n<p>The shoving appeared to be unprovoked, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38713340\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8448.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD police vehicle parked near a subway station with construction scaffolding.\" class=\"wp-image-38713340\"  \/>The suspect ran off before he could be apprehended, cops said.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then ran off, leaving the two men stranded on the tracks, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good Samaritans quickly swooped in and saved the duo before the next train entered the station, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The two victims did not know each other, and no train was entering the station at the time, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>EMS arrived at the scene and took the two men to Cornell Hospital, where they\u2019re in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shover is still on the lam. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket, red hat, tan pants and green shoes, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A maniac randomly shoved two straphangers \u2013 including an 83-year-old man \u2013 onto Upper East Side subway tracks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,1686,466,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-157287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-subway-shoves","17":"tag-upper-east-side","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157287","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=157287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}