By Joy Bergmann
An unidentified male assailant slashed a 61-year-old man in the head with a broken bottle while riding the 2 train at 4:50 a.m. Wednesday morning, police said.
The assault took place as the southbound train passed 86th Street, police said. The victim emerged onto the 72nd Street platform where he was attended to by NYPD officers and EMTs. Video footage from the scene broadcast on a public-safety app called Citizen showed the victim holding a bandage to his right cheek area. Police said he was transported to an area hospital as “alert and responsive.”
The suspect fled the scene and the investigation is ongoing, police said.
NYPD Transit District One Officer Richard Fazio told WSR that the altercation began when the suspect asked the victim to stop playing his harmonica in the car. The victim continued playing. The assailant then engaged him in an argument that concluded with the beaning-by-bottle.
Okay, I’m not saying he had it coming, but….playing a harmonica, on a packed subway car? At least he wasn’t ‘manspreading’.
Something tells me that the subway car was far from “packed” at 4:50am…
Not even sure what that has to do with anything anyways.
Doubt it was that packed at 4:50am in the morning?
Packed? 4:50 A.M.?
Yes, that packed 4:50 AM subway car.
Seems unlikely it was packed, at 4:50 AM?
Yes I’m sure the car was packed and not completely empty at 4:50am
If you are riding the subway alone at 4:50 am, unless something truly egregious is happening (and someone playing the harmonica, no matter how poorly, does not count as this), you just keep your mouth shut and try to get home as quickly and safely as possible. If it is that bad, move to another car. He did not deserve to be hit with a bottle, but a small amount of common sense would have helped his situation.
where does it say the car was packed at 4:50 a.m.?
Since the police don’t patrol the subway stations anymore is very risky to take a subway. I haven’t been in the subway since 1968. Thank God I don’t need to work… It is very dangerous… it smells… it’s full of bacteria and the people are “Dirty and disgusting”…Completely crazy and very dangerous. Your life is in your hands when you take a New York City subway.
Subway……It is very dangerous… it smells… it’s full of bacteria and the people are “Dirty and disgusting”…Completely crazy and very dangerous. Your life is in your hands when you take a New York City subway.
So was the UWS in 1968.
Stay in your Ivory Tower.
Cool story, bro.
How do you know that the police don’t patrol the subway if you haven’t been there in over 50 years?
Is this a joke?
MrBojangles.. it was 4:50 am probably not so packed.
Something tells me that being annoyed by a little harmonica playing was not the only thing wrong in the slasher dude’s life.
Broadway line is full of homeless from late evening through early morning hours. This both in stations and trains.
As for subway car being “packed” at 5am, that isn’t so hard to credit.
Between the aforementioned homeless and those traveling to (or from) work it isn’t very hard to believe a train or at least individual cars might be crowded that early in morning.
NYC isn’t just a 9-5 world anymore. While many are still sleeping in their beds plenty of service sector employees (among others) are heading into work to ensure things are in place for when the rest of city wakes up.
Given how gentrification has driven many low income persons and others out of Manhattan to the Bronx, and or way up into Inwood or Washington Heights depending upon where you need to be and at what time in AM five or six O’clock isn’t unreasonable. Especially considering how much padding one must add to traveling time to accommodate what the MTA is pleased to call scheduled service.
I haven’t been in the subway ever…It is so dangerous and smells… Very crazy people rude the subway and very dangerous. Your life is in your hands when you take a the subway. My wife and I wouldn’t be caught dead in any subway in New York.
You’re missing the easiest and fastest way to get from place to place. But thank you for leaving room for me.