{"id":325611,"date":"2026-08-20T06:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:06:25","slug":"man-72-shoved-onto-nyc-subway-tracks-in-unprovoked-attack-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325611\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 72, shoved onto NYC subway tracks in unprovoked attack: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) &#8212; A 72-year-old man was shoved onto the tracks in the Rockefeller Center subway station in Midtown early Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was standing on the northbound platform on the F and D lines when he was pushed from behind just before 4 a.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim fell onto the tracks but was able to climb back onto the platform, police said. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sources said the attack was unprovoked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Francisco Garcia, 40, was arrested in the Rockefeller Center station and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work <a data-ylk=\"slk:here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/mira-wassef\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) &#8212; A 72-year-old man was shoved onto the tracks in the Rockefeller Center subway station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122577,9,56,63,65,64,12566,1657],"class_list":["post-325611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-francisco-garcia","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rockefeller-center","tag-subway-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325611","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=325611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}