{"id":325228,"date":"2026-08-19T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325228\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:18:14","slug":"crazed-stranger-shoves-elderly-man-72-onto-nyc-subway-tracks-and-victim-climbs-back-up-himself-in-terrifying-silent-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325228\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazed stranger shoves elderly man, 72, onto NYC subway tracks and victim climbs back up himself in terrifying silent attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed stranger shoved an elderly man onto the train tracks at a major Midtown subway station early Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old victim was waiting on the northbound F and D train platform at the 47th\u201350th Streets\u2013Rockefeller Center station around 4 a.m. when the attacker approached him from behind and pushed him without saying a word, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>The gutsy senior then climbed back onto the platform by himself and was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he was listed as stable.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40412702\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/137892175.jpg\" alt=\"Empty subway platform at 47-50 Streets Rockefeller Center station in New York with tiled walls and tracks.\" class=\"wp-image-40412702\"\/>The 72-year-old victim was shoved onto the northbound tracks at the Rockefeller Center station just before 4 a.m. Wednesday, police said. Alex \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The shover, identified as Francisco Garcia, 40, was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and reckless endangerment. <\/p>\n<p>Garcia didn\u2019t appear to have a criminal record in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened just weeks after another unhinged straphanger <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/07\/us-news\/staring-contest-on-nyc-train-leads-to-rider-getting-shoved-onto-subway-tracks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pushed a 27-year-old man<\/a> onto the E train roadbed at the West Fourth Street station in Greenwich Village during an argument over who stared at whom first, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48405797;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40412704\" width=\"876\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/police-scene-person-stabbed-arm-129938539.jpg\" alt=\"Police are seen at the scene where a person was stabbed in the arm at the Rockefeller Plaza subway station on Sixth Avenue at W48th Street in New York, NY, on Saturday, June 6, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-40412704\"\/>The victim climbed back onto the platform of the major Midtown station on his own and was hospitalized in stable condition. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The victim \u2013 who was also hospitalized in stable condition \u2013 was Aaron Kareem Watson,\u00a0a US Army soldier<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/08\/us-news\/army-soldier-missed-dads-funeral-after-being-pushed-onto-nyc-subway-tracks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> who was on leave<\/a> trying to attend his father\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>That suspect fled on a southbound B train and has not yet been caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed stranger shoved an elderly man onto the train tracks at a major Midtown subway station early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5357,57,9,24,55,54,56,12566,1686,1687,58],"class_list":["post-325228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-attacks","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-rockefeller-center","tag-subway-shoves","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325228","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=325228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}