{"id":57140,"date":"2025-12-01T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57140\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:47:08","slug":"homeless-man-sleeping-on-manhattan-subway-train-set-on-fire-attacker-on-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57140\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man sleeping on Manhattan subway train set on fire, attacker on loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0 homeless man was set on fire while sleeping on a subway train moving though Midtown Manhattan early Monday, leaving him hospitalized, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/stats\/crime-statistics\/compstat.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old victim was dozong an uptown No. 3 train approaching the Times Square stop when a man lit him on fire about 3:10 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim got off the train in Times Square, at which point a transit worker saw him and flagged down police officers posted in the station.<\/p>\n<p>He was conscious and alert as medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/newyork-presbyterian-weill-cornell-medical-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell<\/a> in stable condition with severe burns to his legs, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear if the attacker, who has not been caught, got off the train when the victim did or stayed on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0 homeless man was set on fire while sleeping on a subway train moving though Midtown Manhattan early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-57140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140","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=57140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}