{"id":375833,"date":"2026-10-17T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375833\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:18:14","slug":"subway-assaults-rise-in-gotham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375833\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway assaults rise in Gotham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old man cut an elderly woman\u2019s face with a knife after a brief dispute at a subway emergency exit door in Brooklyn Saturday, as serious assaults in New York City\u2019s transit system have spiked 12% over last year, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation broke out on the mezzanine level of the Sheepshead Bay B and Q station around 9 a.m., when the man, who was holding the exit door open, had a run-in with the 68-year-old victim, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker then held a knife against the woman\u2019s face, cutting her and causing her to bleed, a police source said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41382479\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/q-train-coming-sheepsheadx-bay-145423739.jpg\" alt=\"A Q train arriving at the Sheepshead Bay station.\" class=\"wp-image-41382479\"\/>A Q train arrives at the Sheepshead Bay station on Saturday after a female rider was cut on the face by a knife-wielding man. Police took a person of interest into custody, cops said. William Farrington for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The maniac fled on the southbound Q train, cops said. A person of interest was later taken into custody, and charges were pending, the source said. <\/p>\n<p>The woman refused medical attention at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>People sometimes hold the emergency door open and ask incoming riders for money to enter.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41382484\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/female-rider-slashed-across-face-145425005.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance of the Sheepshead Bay subway station.\" class=\"wp-image-41382484\"\/>A 70-year-old man wearing a hoodie was taken into custody by NYPD Transit 34th district officers after a female rider was cut with a knife. William Farrington for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Felony assault in the city\u2019s transit system is up 12% \u2014 to 525 from 470 \u2014 and misdemeanor assault is up 16% \u2014 to 1,304 from 1,120 \u2014 so far this year over the same period last year as of Oct. 13, according to the most recent NYPD data available. <\/p>\n<p>Felony assault is also up 18% from two years ago and 94% from seven years ago and the more minor misdemeanor assaults are up 11% over two years ago and 25% over seven years ago, according to the NYPD data, which doesn\u2019t provide numbers for the older periods. <\/p>\n<p>Transit crime is up 2% overall and arrests in transit are down 5% so far this year to 22,847 from 23,977 at the same time last year, according to the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old man cut an elderly woman\u2019s face with a knife after a brief dispute at a subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,1210,103,8193,361,615,58],"class_list":["post-375833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-transit","tag-nypd","tag-sheepshead-bay","tag-slashings","tag-subway","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375833","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=375833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}