{"id":321532,"date":"2026-08-14T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321532\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:38:23","slug":"woman-wanted-for-threatening-e-train-rider-with-knife-during-argument-in-forest-hills-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321532\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman wanted for threatening E train rider with knife during argument in Forest Hills: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/woman-threatens-e-train-rider-forest-hills01.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"A woman allegedly threatened a subway rider with a knife on a Queens-bound E train approaching the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A woman allegedly threatened a subway rider with a knife on a Queens-bound E train approaching the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station. <\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of MTA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/112th-precinct.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">112th Precinct<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/forest-hills\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Hills<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/transit-housing\/transit-district-20.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Transit District 20<\/a> are looking for a woman who allegedly threatened a fellow E train rider with a knife after the two women were engaged in a verbal dispute during the evening rush on Friday, July 24. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the 56-year-old victim was on a Queens-bound E train approaching the Forest Hills-71st Avenue subway station at 5:30 p.m. when a stranger began arguing with her. The suspect pulled out a knife and threatened the woman before exiting the train, police said. She was last seen boarding an MTA Q76 bus on Queens Boulevard at Continental Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/woman-threatens-e-train-rider-forest-hills02.jpg\" alt=\"Cops are looking for this suspect, who remains at large nearly a month after she allegedly menaced a fellow E train rider with a knife during a heated argument. \" width=\"511\" height=\"720\"  \/>Cops are looking for this suspect, who remains at large nearly a month after she allegedly menaced a fellow E train rider with a knife during a heated argument. Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released a surveillance image of the suspect as she sat in the E train and described her as having a medium complexion with black hair. She wore an olive green blouse and sunglasses and had a large blue handbag slung over her shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to her arrest and indictment\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this menacing investigation is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,-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 nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a> or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Through Aug. 9, the 112th Precinct has reported 14 transit crimes so far in 2026, five fewer than the 19 reported at the same point last year, a decline of 26.3%, according to the most recent CompStat report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman allegedly threatened a subway rider with a knife on a Queens-bound E train approaching the Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[31260,29452,31261,30605,9,24,63,103,104,122,124,123,26214],"class_list":["post-321532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-112th-precinct","tag-e-train","tag-forest-hillsu201371st-avenue-subway-station","tag-menacing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-transit-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321532","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=321532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}