Man Shoved Onto Subway Tracks At Columbus Circle
Police said the 25-year-old victim was pushed onto the southbound D line track.
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Police said the 25-year-old victim was pushed onto the southbound D line track.
All this comes as the MTA is in the middle of a financial crisis and considering raising fares and tolls, plus painful service cuts if no aid comes from the federal government.
A good Samaritan was hailed as a hero at Wednesday Metropolitan Transportation Authority board meeting.
Police sources told CBS2 on Sunday night the suspect, identified as 30-year-old Demetrius Harvard of the Bronx, is emotionally disturbed and homeless.
The NYPD continues to search for a man and a woman they say assaulted a man after he asked one of them to wear a face mask at a Brooklyn subway station.
Roads clogged with cars. Trains that come once an hour. Those are some of the dire predictions in a new Metropolitan Transportation Authority report.
According to police, the victim told the woman to wear a mask, which sparked an argument that escalated into an assault and robbery.
The agency says it's because the funding is not an "immediate action" to protect public health and safety.
Back in April, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order requiring all commuters and MTA employees to wear face coverings on public transit.
The Metropolitan Transportation Agency has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair smashed subway car windows, but the vandalism has not stopped.
Starting Monday, Sept. 14, riders who are not wearing a face covering can be hit with a $50 fine, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported.
A man who fell on subway tracks at a Brooklyn station was saved moments before a train arrived.
Millions of people typically flock to mass transit in the days after Labor Day Weekend, but the coronavirus pandemic has changed all of that.
The man allegedly held the doors open, while the woman got on the bus and punched the driver, 35, several times in the face.
Schools, subways and courthouses could all become a whole lot dirtier, and federal funds to buy coronavirus protective gear for teachers and students could dry up.
Police said he pushed the conductor into the path of an oncoming train Tuesday at the Hoyt Schermerhorn station.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted the move, saying the president is "telling essential workers that he does not value their safety or sacrifices over the last six months."
Police said the Q18 bus was driving south on 51st when it hit the victim and dragged him down the block.
It happened around 2:25 p.m. Tuesday while the bus while traveling southbound on the Harlem River Drive near 155th Street.
The conductor was pushed from the platform into the path of an oncoming train.
Authorities said the unprovoked attack happened just before 8 a.m. at the Hoyt Schermerhorn subway station.
This comes as concerns loom over the future of the MTA and what the agency calls its worst financial crisis in history.
It's unclear if this is the same suspect wanted for breaking hundreds of window on 7 trains since May.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in dire straits. It says it needs billons of dollars in federal funding or the way people commute will drastically change.
There has been yet another senseless act of vandalism on the subway.
