{"id":2721,"date":"2025-10-15T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2721\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:05:06","slug":"vandal-cuts-signal-wires-snarls-rush-hour-subway-service-on-2-3-4-and-5-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2721\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandal cuts signal wires, snarls rush hour subway service on 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCTSubway\/status\/1978211191689212262\" rel=\"nofollow\">Straphangers were delayed<\/a> on the Nos. 2, 3 4 and 5 lines Tuesday evening after a vandal allegedly cut and attempted to steal wires critical to the subway signaling system, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Transit officials reported a signal failure on the line serving the Nos. 2 and 5 trains shortly before 5:15 p.m. Tuesday near the 149th St. \u2013 Grand Concourse station. The outage snarled traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx during the evening rush hour in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Some uptown No. 2 trains were re-routed along the No. 5 line for the length of Manhattan, and others ended their run at the 137th St. \u2013 City College station.<\/p>\n<p>A man was taken into custody shortly before 5:30 p.m. for allegedly cutting wires to a piece of signal infrastructure at 149th St. \u2013 Grand Concourse, and MTA work crews were on site.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA referred all inquiries on the matter to the NYPD, spokespersons for whom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Straphangers were delayed on the Nos. 2, 3 4 and 5 lines Tuesday evening after a vandal allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,266,267,9,24,12,63,129,131,130,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-2721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","17":"tag-the-bronx-news","18":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","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=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}