{"id":227111,"date":"2026-05-11T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227111\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:41:08","slug":"woman-bitten-punched-on-q-train-in-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227111\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman bitten, punched on Q train in Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLATBUSH \u2013 AN OLDER WOMAN was punched and bitten by an unknown person on a Q train in Flatbush last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>At around 7:20 a.m. on Thursday, May 7, on a northbound Q train at the Newkirk Avenue station, a 66-year-old woman was approached by an unidentified person who started an argument and then assaulted her, punching her in the face and biting her left forearm before fleeing the train.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>In images released by the police, the suspect appears to be a middle-aged woman with a dark complexion and short, straight, dark hair. She was wearing a dark-colored coat.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLATBUSH \u2013 AN OLDER WOMAN was punched and bitten by an unknown person on a Q train in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[89165,3302,98,100,99,303,9,24,63,19064,15863],"class_list":["post-227111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-biting","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-subway-safety-subway-accidents-subway-violence-train-safety","tag-wanted-poster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227111","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=227111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}