{"id":301444,"date":"2026-07-21T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301444\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:00:11","slug":"fiends-beat-rob-sleeping-straphanger-on-nyc-subway-train-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301444\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiends beat, rob sleeping straphanger on NYC subway train: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crew of ruffians all decked out in black brutally attacked and robbed a man sleeping aboard a Manhattan subway train last week, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Cops said the three fiends approached the 32-year-old victim while he was getting some shut-eye on a southbound 4 train near Union Square around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the three fiends approached the 32-year-old man while he was getting some shut-eye on a southbound 4 train near Union Square around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0 NYPD<\/p>\n<p>One of the sickos then approached the sleeping man and began punching him throughout his body \u2013 and after that jacked his cellphone, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>One of the brutes then started wailing on the sleeping man \u2013 and after that jacked his cellphone, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The cowards then ran off into the wind, but not before trying to take the man\u2019s watch, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the man to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he\u2019s in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the three fiends approached the 32-year-old man while he was getting some shut-eye on a southbound 4 train near Union Square around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0 Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Cops said they\u2019re looking for young men between the ages of 18 and 25 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictures released by cops show them dressed in shady, all-black outfits, with two of the fiends covering their faces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said they\u2019re looking for young men between the ages of 18 and 25 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictures cops released of the brutes show them dressed in shady, all-black outfits, with two covering their faces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cowards then ran off into the wind after the attack, but not before trying to take the man\u2019s watch, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!F0Stn7g!D8Or3OpFrHjLw6wiM4HoOMQOi3bW388ApezdERleMRBzNkhVkmg3DOHtFQz-URcWJFyYskuusc3fBut07-g$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crew of ruffians all decked out in black brutally attacked and robbed a man sleeping aboard a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,615,6018,58],"class_list":["post-301444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-subway","tag-union-square","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301444","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=301444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}