{"id":334402,"date":"2026-09-01T01:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334402\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:54:54","slug":"nyc-straphanger-who-held-emergency-gate-open-for-other-riders-slashed-repeatedly-during-fight-cops-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334402\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC straphanger who held emergency gate open for other riders slashed repeatedly during fight: cops, report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx straphanger who held the emergency gate open for other riders was slashed repeatedly during a Monday morning clash, according to cops and a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old man was knifed all over his body when tensions flared with a blade-wielding brute inside the No. 4 train station at West 170th Street and Jerome Avenue in Mount Eden, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40602663\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/man-stabbed-fight-bronx-subway-139129512.jpg\" alt=\"A Bronx straphanger who held the emergency gate open for other riders was slashed repeatedly during a Monday morning clash, according to cops and a report.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-40602663\"\/>The 170th Street subway station in Concourse, Bronx, where a man was stabbed during a fight on Monday.  GoogleMaps<\/p>\n<p>The victim was holding the gate open when the violence erupted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/bronx-subway-slasher-emergency-gate-08312026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AM NY reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he is listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made in the early-morning burst of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came just days after a crazed stranger <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/search?sca_esv=f6fa7329d2cd1b6e&amp;rlz=1C1GCCA_en&amp;sxsrf=APpeQnsm5-zCRlwZ9nP2bzKmu0rCpeKNUg:1788217246029&amp;q=nyu+security+guard&amp;tbm=nws&amp;source=lnms&amp;fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8c4u0nXx4bEIpwm1lnNH832QGGMdFXpDyzkQgEdtB8w9w-GD6PIjvNPpUnrx3WoOVIqtB7m0uJCnmO69VZCGvjkMfWsh5Z9ZkqTJtAkqH4x-JZ6rtwXk5GjDBDnl46W-adJoPQGPa_PMVudy-AU8-JQ7qFq-9G8rfofITbLrqyTv-aZbKkdBEXR6hnFhdD-7izIqNthA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi08-ut_MuWAxXfKlkFHbrYNDcQ0pQJegQIEhAB&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=585&amp;dpr=1.5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shoved an NYU security guard<\/a> heading to work onto the subway tracks in an unprovoked attack elsewhere in the Bronx, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40602653\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/man-stabbed-fight-bronx-subway-139129513.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the 170th Street subway station in the Bronx, with people walking on the sidewalk and buses in the street.\" class=\"wp-image-40602653\"\/>The victim was stabbed in the body after an argument with a stranger and was taken to the hospital in stable condition. GoogleMaps<\/p>\n<p>That victim \u2013 identified by her cousin as Lydia Zuniga, 65 \u2013 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>He later walked into a psychiatric clinic admitting what he\u2019d done, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old menace had not yet been formally charged by Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx straphanger who held the emergency gate open for other riders was slashed repeatedly during a Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,2442,615,129,131,130,58,2917],"class_list":["post-334402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-subway","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334402","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=334402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}