{"id":276262,"date":"2026-06-24T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276262\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:41:12","slug":"elderly-straphanger-injured-after-being-shoved-onto-nyc-subway-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276262\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly straphanger injured after being shoved onto NYC subway platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops are searching for a wacko who shoved an elderly straphanger onto the platform of a Manhattan subway station earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>A 65-year-old man was on board a northbound 1 train at the 28th Street subway station around 1:20 a.m. on June 2 when the unidentified man pushed him off the train and onto the platform, the NYPD said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.68359375;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39774802\" width=\"403\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0120-hours-onboard-northbound-1-132018611.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance image of a male suspect wearing a black hoodie with &quot;Solo Leveling&quot; text and a blue graphic, black pants, a black baseball cap, and headphones, at a subway turnstile.\" class=\"wp-image-39774802\"  \/>Police are searching for a man who allegedly shoved a 65-year-old straphanger from a northbound 1 train onto the platform of the 28th Street subway station.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to a local hospital in stable condition after suffering a head injury and multiple facial fractures in the freak attack, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The shover then fled the location on foot, cops added. It\u2019s unclear what sparked the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Photos released by police Tuesday showed the suspect with a beard and mustache, wearing a baseball cap, large headphones, and a black sweatshirt with white text that said \u201csolo leveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.32814527;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39774816\" width=\"784\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mosaic-subway-sign-28th-street-132018593.jpg\" alt=\"Mosaic subway sign for 28th Street Station in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-39774816\"  \/>The man suffered a head injury and multiple facial fractures in the assault.  James \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The assault is one of multiple alarming incidents that have injured elderly people in the Big Apple in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Homeless maniac Shawnee Moore<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/01\/us-news\/homeless-maniac-randomly-stabs-elderly-woman-waiting-for-uber-in-nyc-after-eerie-greeting-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> allegedly stabbed a 75-year-old woman in the neck<\/a> as she waited for an Uber in Brownsville on the morning of May 31. <\/p>\n<p>Tashara Abel, a political worker handing out campaign leaflets for a Democratic candidate in Prospect Lefferts Garden, was arrested for allegedly<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/06\/us-news\/woman-loses-it-over-pamphlet-dispute-cops-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0punching and beating a 98-year-old man\u00a0with a broomstick<\/a> and a metal chair on June 4. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the incident at the 28th Street subway station is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are searching for a wacko who shoved an elderly straphanger onto the platform of a Manhattan subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,1686,1687,58],"class_list":["post-276262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-assaults","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subway-shoves","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276262","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=276262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}