High-risk sex offender busted for slashing NYC straphanger in homophobic attack: cops
A high-risk sex offender was arrested this week after allegedly hurling homophobic comments and slashing another man with a box cutter on a Manhattan train, authorities said. Milton Hamlin, 46, who has been arrested 10 times in the past, was arrested Friday at 11 p.m. for a 27-year-old man who was riding with a male […]
NYC straphanger slashed by box cutter-wielding stranger: cops
A man with a knife slashed a stranger on the hand late Friday on a Manhattan train after an argument turned violent, police said. The 27-year-old victim was riding the Uptown A train between West 14th Street and Penn Station in Chelsea around 11:30 p.m. when he exchanged words with an unknown man who slashed […]
Straphanger stabbed on NYC train, blocks from Yankee Stadium: cops
A 61-year-old straphanger was stabbed in the abdomen Friday afternoon on a train in the Bronx, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium, police said. Police said the victim was riding the southbound No. 4 train shortly after 3 p.m. when he was stabbed once by another man at the 167th Street station near River Avenue […]
Bronx subway gunman ‘admitted to shooting’ straphanger William Alvarez
The gunman accused of killing a straphanger on a Bronx subway train “admitted to shooting” the victim, prosecutors said, but his lawyer argued he acted in self-defense. Justin Helde, 24, rocked back and forth during Tuesday’s arraignment, during which prosecutors said William was on a southbound D train entering the 182-183 Street Station Friday morning.・Revealed […]
Straphanger beaten with metal pipe in latest NYC subway violence: cops
A Big Apple straphanger was repeatedly hit in the head with a metal pipe at a Queens subway station. This is the latest example of recent violence in the city’s troubled transit system. Police said the underground assault occurred shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday at the Queensboro Plaza Station, where a thug walked up to […]