{"id":324963,"date":"2026-08-19T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324963\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:06:08","slug":"man-72-shoved-unprovoked-onto-nyc-rockefeller-center-subway-tracks-by-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324963\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 72, shoved unprovoked onto NYC Rockefeller Center subway tracks by stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year old man was shoved to the subway tracks by a stranger in an unprovoked attack at Manhattan\u2019s Rockefeller Center station early Wednesday \u2014 but was able to climb back onto the platform despite suffering a separated shoulder in the fall, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was standing on the uptown platform for the B, D, F and M trains when he was shoved from behind about 3:50 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if anything was said by the attacker. The victim was able to climb back to safety, with medics then taking him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/locations\/west?utm_source=Yext&amp;utm_medium=local_listing&amp;utm_campaign=MSR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Sinai West<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old attacker, a man from Queens, was taken into custody at the scene and will be charged with assault and reckless endangerment, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing incident comes amidst a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/14\/trio-sought-for-stabbing-good-samaritan-at-queens-subway-stop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sharp increase in both felony and misdemeanor assaults<\/a> in the subway system.<\/p>\n<p>Through Aug. 9, there were 406 felony assaults in the subway system, up 9% from the 371 for the same time last year. Misdemeanor assaults were also up, to 1,056 from 876, a spike of 21%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year old man was shoved to the subway tracks by a stranger in an unprovoked attack at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-324963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","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","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324963","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=324963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}