{"id":332145,"date":"2026-08-28T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332145\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:26:08","slug":"stranger-shoves-woman-onto-nyc-train-tracks-then-walks-into-psych-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332145\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger shoves woman onto NYC train tracks, then walks into psych clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed stranger shoved a 65-year-old woman onto Bronx subway tracks in an unprovoked attack Thursday afternoon \u2013 and later walked into a psychiatric clinic admitting what he\u2019d done, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was standing on the northbound No. 5 train platform at East 180th Street and Morris Park Avenue in Van Nest around 1:40 p.m. when the menace silently approached her from behind and shoved her onto the roadbed, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A quick-thinking bystander flagged down cops \u2014 who halted their station inspection duties to help the victim back up onto the platform with only a knee injury, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40560467\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-york-city-east-180th-138799006.jpg\" alt=\"Steps with a mosaic at the East 180th Street Subway station on Thursday, July 21, 2016, in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-40560467\"\/>A maniac shoved a 65-year-old woman onto the northbound No. 5 train tracks at East 180th Street and Morris Park Avenue Thursday afternoon, police said. Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition with only knee injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect had no apparent connection to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>After the attack, he showed up at a psychiatric clinic, telling employees he just pushed someone onto the subway tracks and requested an evaluation, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>He was in police custody Friday, but was still being evaluated at the facility, according to the sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charges were pending against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed stranger shoved a 65-year-old woman onto Bronx subway tracks in an unprovoked attack Thursday afternoon \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,2441,57,9,56,63,65,64,1687,58],"class_list":["post-332145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-mental-illness","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332145","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=332145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}