{"id":157802,"date":"2026-03-09T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157802\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:26:35","slug":"two-men-one-83-shoved-unprovoked-by-stranger-onto-manhattan-subway-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157802\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men, one 83, shoved unprovoked by stranger onto Manhattan subway tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men, one of them 83, were shoved onto the subway tracks in an unprovoked attack at an Upper East Side station, police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n

Both men were taken by medics to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell,<\/a> where the elderly victim is in critical condition. The younger victim, age 30, is in stable condition.<\/p>\n

The victims were waiting on the downtown platform for the F and Q trains at the Lexington Avenue-63rd St. station when they were attacked about 11:30 a.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The assailant, who never said a word, came up behind the younger victim and shoved him to the tracks before quickly doing the same to the older man.<\/p>\n

As the attacker ran off, the younger victim helped the older man to his feet, with straphangers helping both get back onto the platform.<\/p>\n

The two victims do not know each other, police said.<\/p>\n

Subway crime this year through March 1 is up 13% from last year, NYPD stats show. Felony assaults are up 12%, with 105 incidents in transit so far this year compared to 94 by this time last year.<\/p>\n

The NYPD released surveillance photos of the suspect in Sunday\u2019s attack and are asking the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him down. He was wearing a gray jacket, red sweatshirt and light-colored pants.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men, one of them 83, were shoved onto the subway tracks in an unprovoked attack at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-157802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157802","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=157802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}