{"id":86775,"date":"2026-01-01T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86775\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:20:09","slug":"maniac-shoves-72-year-old-man-into-moving-nyc-train-in-2026s-first-burst-of-random-subway-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86775\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac shoves 72-year-old man into moving NYC train &#8212; in 2026&#8217;s first burst of random subway violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A maniac shoved a 72-year-old man into the side of an oncoming train Thursday morning \u2014 marking the first random episode of Big Apple subway violence in the new year, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was waiting for a Manhattan-bound No. 4 train at the Bronx\u2019s 161-Yankee Stadium station around 3:30 a.m. when the wack job pushed him, sending him flying into the train, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38071418\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/police-car-near-scene-person-110193979.jpg\" alt=\"Subway entrance sign for 161 Street-Yankee Stadium Station with B and D train lines.\" class=\"wp-image-38071418\"  \/>The subway station where the incident occurred. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38071427\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/train-station-platform-yankee-stadium-118111168.jpg\" alt=\"Train station platform at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, with people.\" class=\"wp-image-38071427\"  \/>Yankee Stadium is located in the Bronx near 161st Street. iStock<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the elderly man to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police nabbed a suspect at the scene, the NYPD said. Charges against him were pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A maniac shoved a 72-year-old man into the side of an oncoming train Thursday morning \u2014 marking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,57,9,24,63,615,1686,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-86775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-subway","15":"tag-subway-shoves","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86775","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=86775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}