{"id":182584,"date":"2026-04-01T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:16:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-arrested-after-alleged-hate-crime-attack-on-d-train-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182584\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man arrested after alleged hate\u2011crime attack on D Train platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Staten Island man is facing multiple charges after allegedly making anti-Islamic statements towards a woman standing on the D train.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe NYPD says that Christopher Nastasa, 39, was charged with 19 charges, including two counts of Hate Crime\/Robbery, two counts of robbery, and one count each of grand larceny and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>\tPolice transported him from the Seventh Precinct, which houses the Hate Crimes Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe incident happened on March 17 at the 9th Avenue subway station just before 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\tPolice say <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/man-wanted-for-assault-anti-islamic-comments-on-d-train-platform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the man approached a 20-year-old woman<\/a> standing on the platform and made anti-Islamic statements before grabbing her arms and throwing her to the ground. He also took the victim&#8217;s cellphone and threw it to the ground, damaging it.<\/p>\n<p>\tAccording to NYPD statistics, transit crime and hate crimes are slightly up across the city compared to this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Staten Island man is facing multiple charges after allegedly making anti-Islamic statements towards a woman standing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2834,98,100,99,15582,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-182584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-arrested","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-hate-crime","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182584","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=182584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}