{"id":304681,"date":"2026-07-24T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304681\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:52:08","slug":"manhattan-subway-rider-19-attacked-by-stranger-in-argument-over-cellphone-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304681\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan subway rider, 19, attacked by stranger in argument over cellphone recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old Manhattan subway rider was struck in the head with a metal water bottle and put in a chokehold by another commuter who thought the victim was using his cellphone to record him, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cops have released an image of the attacker, hoping that someone will recognize him.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened at 4:30 p.m. Thursday as the Bronx-bound No. 5 train the two men were on approached the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you recording me?\u201d the suspect, sporting a black hoodie and a baseball cap, asked the victim, who was looking down at his phone at the time.<\/p>\n<p>As the two argued, the suspect struck the teen in the head repeatedly with a metal water bottle he was carrying, cops said. The victim was then punched numerous times in the face and put in a chokehold before the attacker ran out of the subway car once the train doors opened.<\/p>\n<p>The victim took himself to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a> to be treated for minor injuries, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Manhattan subway rider was struck in the head with a metal water bottle and put in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-304681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304681","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=304681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}