{"id":189036,"date":"2026-04-08T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:46:10","slug":"mta-bus-driver-attacked-by-irate-straphanger-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189036\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA bus driver attacked by irate straphanger in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old MTA bus driver was beaten by an irate straphanger in the Bronx, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was attacked aboard a <a href=\"https:\/\/bustime.mta.info\/m\/?q=Bx3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bx3 bus<\/a> at University Ave. and W. Fordham Road in University Heights around 1:10 p.m. on March 19, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were arguing when the passenger punched the victim in the face, splitting his lip, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the bus driver to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbhny.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a> in stable condition, said police.<\/p>\n<p>His attacker fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Police released an image of the suspect, who was last seen wearing a dark colored jacket, white t-shirt, multicolored hat, dark colored pats and white sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old MTA bus driver was beaten by an irate straphanger in the Bronx, cops said Tuesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-189036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","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-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc-crime","21":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189036","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=189036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}