{"id":331017,"date":"2026-08-27T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331017\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:25:03","slug":"on-duty-mta-maintenance-worker-stabbed-by-stranger-during-fight-at-times-square-subway-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331017\/","title":{"rendered":"On-duty MTA maintenance worker stabbed by stranger during fight at Times Square subway stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An MTA maintenance worker was stabbed during an argument with a stranger at the Times Square subway station in midtown Manhattan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/04\/nypd-record-low-shootings-murders-first-seven-months-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old victim was cleaning the No. 1 train platform at the Midtown station when the attacker stormed up to him about 10:30 p.m. Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The stranger started an argument with the worker that quickly turned physical and ended when the attacker drew a sharp object and stabbed the victim in his left arm, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police released surveillance video images of a man who they said stabbed an MTA maintenance worker at the Times Square subway station in midtown Manhattan. (NYPD)\" width=\"384\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RMA-2195-26-Assault-MTS-Pct.TD1-08.24.26-photo-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9202297\" \/>Police released surveillance video images of a man who they said stabbed an MTA maintenance worker at the Times Square subway station in midtown Manhattan. (NYPD)<\/p>\n<p>The attacker fled the station on a Brooklyn-bound No. 1 train that had just entered the station, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the transit worker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where he\u2019s expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect and asked the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him down. He was wearing a black T-shirt, blue shorts, a black book bag and white sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTA maintenance worker was stabbed during an argument with a stranger at the Times Square subway station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,608],"class_list":["post-331017","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-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331017","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=331017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}