{"id":376250,"date":"2026-10-18T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376250\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:28:09","slug":"man-fatally-shot-on-nyc-subway-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376250\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Fatally Shot on NYC Subway Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        An argument on a subway platform in midtown Manhattan turned deadly Saturday, leaving one man fatally shot and train service temporarily disrupted. The shooting happened around 12:20pm at the station at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street, a short walk from several Broadway theaters and Carnegie Hall, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/article\/0176997a6c242809b59872af0e49e90f\/man-shot-killed-on-subway-platform-in-midtown-manhattan.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>. Police found an adult man with a gunshot wound to his chest. A police spokesperson said the shooting took place on the E train platform during a dispute involving two or three men. The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p> Violent crime has been dropping steadily in New York City since a spike during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and deadly violence inside the subway system remains rare, despite the trains being used by millions of people each day. Through mid-October, the city was on pace to have its lowest number of killings in decades, with reported homicides down 20% from the same point last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; An argument on a subway platform in midtown Manhattan turned deadly Saturday, leaving one man fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[786,9,28687,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-376250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-subway","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376250","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=376250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}