Subway rider slashed, pepper-sprayed by spurned panhandler: cops

A Manhattan straphanger was slashed and pepper-sprayed by a spurned panhandler early Wednesday, cops mentioned. 

The 57-year-old sufferer was driving a northbound 1 prepare between West forty second and West fiftieth streets round 1:30 a.m. when one other man began begging him for cash, authorities mentioned. 

When the rider refused handy over any money, the suspect pepper-sprayed him and reduce him on the correct arm with a knife, cops mentioned. 

A 57-year-old man was slashed and pepper-sprayed on a northbound 1 prepare touring by means of Midtown when he refused to fork over cash to a panhandler, cops mentioned.

Robert Mecea

The assailant, believed to be in his 20s, obtained off the prepare at West fiftieth Avenue and has not but been caught. 

The sufferer stayed on the prepare till the subsequent cease, 59th Avenue–Columbus Circle, the place police responded.

He was taken to Mount Sinai West, the place he was handled for lacerations and launched, authorities mentioned. 

In a separate incident on the rails, a 13-year-old boy was pummeled and robbed on a Brooklyn prepare on Oct. 3, cops mentioned this week.

The sufferer stayed on the prepare till 59th Avenue-Columbus Circle, the place police responded.

Robert Mecea

The teenager sufferer was driving a Manhattan-bound F prepare approaching the Avenue P station when a gaggle of men approached him round 4 p.m., police mentioned. 

The crew of 4 punched him a number of occasions within the head and grabbed his backpack and cellphone earlier than taking off, authorities mentioned.

The sufferer was taken to Maimonides Medical Middle in steady situation with bruising to his head and face. 

4 suspects ganged up on a 13-year-old boy, punching him and robbing him on a Brooklyn prepare final week, cops mentioned.

NYPD

The young-looking suspects — all sporting backpacks — are proven on surveillance footage launched late Tuesday strolling on a wet avenue. 

Police are nonetheless trying to monitor them down. 

The assaults come amid a current string of violent assaults within the metropolis’s subway system.

In an unprovoked assault earlier this week, a 49-year-old lady was struck within the head with scissors on the Cathedral Parkway station in Harlem round 2:30 a.m. Monday, authorities mentioned. 

In the meantime, murders within the subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the best annual ranges in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers.

Most lately, two Huge Apple dads — Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38 — have been individually knifed to loss of life in random assaults on their commutes dwelling from work.