Three men \u2013 two of them senior citizens \u2013 were hurt in a nine-hour burst of unprovoked violence in the city\u2019s subway system early Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n
The mayhem began around 12:25 a.m. when an unhinged man bashed a 32-year-old straphanger in the head with a metal pole on board a northbound A train at the Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard in Queens, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The blow left the victim with a visible cut on the left side of his neck, but he refused medical attention at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A crazed man struck a 32-year-old straphanger in the head with a metal pole on board a northbound A train at the Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard in Queens, police said. WAYNE CARRINGTON<\/p>\n
The alleged attacker, Wesley Saint-Vil, 27, was arrested about five minutes later and charged with felony assault, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saint-Vil has nine prior arrests, though all but three of them are sealed, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The most recent bust was for petit larceny in August in Upper Manhattan, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before that, Borden \u2013 who lives in a Queens housing facility for homeless veterans \u2013 allegedly slugged a 61-year-old man who was smoking outside the building in an unprovoked attack, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In an unrelated assault just after 6 a.m., a stranger repeatedly punched and kicked a 71-year-old man on the southbound A train platform at 175th Street, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The beatdown left the senior with multiple cuts on his head and nose, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A stranger repeatedly punched and kicked a 71-year-old man on the southbound A train platform at 175th Street, cops said. Stefano Giovannini<\/p>\n
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The alleged assailant, who had a dark complexion and was last seen wearing a navy blue sweatshirt, gray pants and black backpack, fled on an A train, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The violence continued during the morning rush hour, when a 65-year-old man was punched by a stranger on board a southbound L train at the Third Avenue station in the East Village.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A stranger slugged a 65-year-old man during a clash over space on a rush-hour train passing through the Third Avenue station in the East Village, cops said. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n
The victim was riding the train when he asked another commuter \u2013 who was standing over him \u2013 to move back, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the stubborn rider refused, before stepping on the seated straphanger\u2019s foot and challenging him to a physical fight, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the victim stood up, the brute punched him in the back of the head, leaving him with a large bump, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The violence comes amid a slight spike in attacks in the city\u2019s subway system so far this year. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n
The victim got off the train and was treated at the scene by EMS workers, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The attacker \u2013 described as a man in his 30s wearing a gray sweater with a gold chain \u2013 stayed on board and has not been caught.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assaults within the city\u2019s transit system have slightly spiked so far this year, with 476 attacks reported on the rails through Sunday, according to the latest NYPD data.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYPD tallied a total of 462 assaults within the city\u2019s transit system during the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men \u2013 two of them senior citizens \u2013 were hurt in a nine-hour burst of unprovoked violence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,303,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,122,615,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-21745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-subway","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745","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=21745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}