{"id":86920,"date":"2026-01-01T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:10:07","slug":"man-72-hurt-when-stranger-throws-him-against-side-of-bronx-subway-train-in-unprovoked-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86920\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 72, hurt when stranger throws him against side of Bronx subway train in unprovoked attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old man was hurt early Thursday when a stranger threw him against the side of an approaching train during an unprovoked attack at a Bronx subway station, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/01\/shootings-hit-record-low-victims-get-younger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was pushed into the side of a Manhattan-bound No. 4 train entering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/4-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">161st St.-Yankee Stadium station<\/a> at 3:30 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The two men did not speak to one another before the attack, cops said. The victim bounced off the train and landed back on the platform, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/lincoln\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Hospital<\/a>, where he\u2019s expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Cops caught the accused shover at the station, officials said. Charges against him were pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old man was hurt early Thursday when a stranger threw him against the side of an approaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-86920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86920","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=86920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}