{"id":186605,"date":"2026-04-05T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:47:07","slug":"mta-operator-bloodied-in-nasty-scrap-with-sleeping-bronx-straphanger-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186605\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA operator bloodied in nasty scrap with sleeping Bronx straphanger: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

An MTA subway operator suffered a head injury after he was beaten to the ground in a wild, caught-on-video showdown on a Bronx subway platform, cops and sources familiar with the attack said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old operator was taking a northbound No. 6 train out of service at the Parkchester station<\/a> around 10:35 p.m. Friday when he went to roust a sleeping straphanger, cops said.<\/p>\n

According to police, the sleeping man attacked the operator, repeatedly striking him in the face.<\/p>\n

Video obtained by the Daily News \u2014 set to the rap track \u201cBang Bang\u201d by Jadakiss<\/a> \u2014 shows the straphanger spit at the operator as he leaves the subway car.<\/p>\n

The footage then shows the operator burst out of the door with a wooden stick that MTA staff call a \u201cshoe paddle\u201d \u2014 a tool meant to un-jam a third-rail contact shoe without electrocuting the staffer.<\/p>\n

The operator swings at the man several times, hitting him and chasing him to the center of the platform, the recording shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gonna spit at me?\u201d the operator yells, as the man takes off his jacket and a small crowd, including a young boy, watch, the video shows.<\/p>\n

The operator takes another swing, but the man ducks, punches the operator, then knocks him down, raining punches on his head before a bystander separates the two.<\/p>\n

Medics took the operator to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition. Photos from the hospital show him with a bandage on his head, a bruised, swollen eye and a bloody gash on his cheek.<\/p>\n

The other man ran off and is being sought.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransit employees should always safely return home in the same condition as they came to work. Anything less is unacceptable,\u201d said NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow.<\/p>\n

MTA employees have in the past used shoe paddles to fight back when attacked in the subway system. Last June, a transit worker used one to defend himself<\/a> during a battle with alleged serial train thief Justine Randall.<\/p>\n

Cops have not made any arrests in Friday\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n

With Evan Simko-Bednarski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTA subway operator suffered a head injury after he was beaten to the ground in a wild,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-186605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-crime","20":"tag-sub-county-region","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186605","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=186605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}