{"id":43021,"date":"2025-11-17T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43021\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:10:09","slug":"stranger-pushes-good-samaritan-56-into-moving-nyc-train-as-she-tries-to-settle-fight-breaking-her-back-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43021\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger pushes good Samaritan, 56, into moving NYC train as she tries to settle fight, breaking her back: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stranger shoved a good Samaritan into a moving Harlem train \u2013 leaving her with a broken back and bleeding in her lungs \u2013 when she tried to break up a fight on a subway platform early Sunday, prosecutors and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old victim stepped into the fray when she spotted two men fighting on the southbound No. 2 and 3 train platform around 12:40 a.m., law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Her attempt to help backfired when one of the men turned on her \u2013 pushing her into the side of an oncoming southbound No. 2 train, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37691948\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/12-08-2017-115616051.jpg\" alt=\"12\/08\/2017 - New York Post - 135th 2\/3 subway station. \" class=\"wp-image-37691948\"  \/>A 56-year-old woman was shoved into an oncoming No. 2 train in Harlem when she tried to break up a fight. Zandy Mangold<\/p>\n<p>The victim bounced off the train and landed on the platform, but the attack left her with a cut on the side of her head, a black eye, a hole and bleeding in her lungs and spinal fractures, prosecutors and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her injuries, she was able to point out her attacker to responding cops, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Nett, 33, of Newark, NJ, was arrested and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, both as felonies, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37691950\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/postinhouse-nypostinhouse-crime-scene-crime-115470690.jpg\" alt=\"A general view of police line do not cross tape or police tape or crime scene tape at the scene of a police involved shooting in New York, NY as seen on November 13, 2025. \" class=\"wp-image-37691950\"  \/>Aaron Nett, 33, was arrested at the scene when the victim pointed him out to responding cops, police said. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Harlem Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Nett also was hospitalized for an evaluation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned Monday on first- and second-degree assault charges and ordered held on $5,000 cash bail, $30,000 insurance company bond or $15,000 partially secured surety bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nett, who has no prior arrests in the Big Apple, is set to reappear in court Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if he and the other man who was fighting with him knew each other or what their dispute was about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranger shoved a good Samaritan into a moving Harlem train \u2013 leaving her with a broken back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211,303,469,57,9,56,63,65,64,1687,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-43021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-harlem","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-subways","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43021","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=43021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}