West Side Rag
  • TOP NEWS
  • OPEN/CLOSED
  • FOOD
  • SCHOOLS
  • OUTDOORS
  • REAL ESTATE
  • ART & CULTURE
  • POLITICS
  • COLUMNS
  • CRIME
  • HISTORY
  • ABSURDITY
  • ABOUT US
    • OUR STORY
    • CONTRIBUTORS
    • CONTACT
West Side Rag
No Result
View All Result
SUPPORT THE RAG

Search the site

No Result
View All Result
Get WSR FREE in your inbox
SUPPORT THE RAG

Police Seek Man for ‘Forcible Grabbing’ on Subway

September 7, 2022 | 9:02 AM
in CRIME, NEWS
23

By Carol Tannenhauser

Police are asking for the public’s assistance in finding an unidentified man “carrying a blue umbrella” (pictured at right), who allegedly “forcibly grabbed the buttocks of a 24-year-old woman” inside a southbound B train approaching the 81st Street-Museum of Natural History subway station, on Tuesday, September 6th, at 6:30 AM.

The victim reported that the man said “he could touch anyone he wants” and that “he would stab people in the eyes.” After the incident, the victim and other bystanders fled the train at 72nd Street and Central Park West, while the perpetrator remained on board going south.

Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this individual is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.

Share this article:
SUPPORT THE RAG
guest

guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

23 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
D C
D C
2 years ago

This is why I no longer take the subway.

19
Reply
Phoebe
Phoebe
2 years ago
Reply to  D C

I rarely do either but it’s because it’s creepy to know that if someone were to bother me, half the people would take a picture and the other half would look down or flee.

0
Reply
Tego
Tego
2 years ago
Reply to  D C

And no one called 911 when there is a Police station at the Columbus Circle station to hold the train and get an immediate police response. Does anyone think anymore?

0
Reply
Phoebe
Phoebe
2 years ago
Reply to  Tego

Seems not

0
Reply
Big Earl
Big Earl
2 years ago
Reply to  D C

Around two million people ride the subway everyday. One unfortunate person had someone grab them. I’ll continue to ride the subway everyday as the odds are in my favor.

14
Reply
Jen
Jen
2 years ago
Reply to  Big Earl

Well, it might be easier for you since you are BIG Earl.
I stopped doing it since I’m a woman and not strong.

25
Reply
GoRangers
GoRangers
2 years ago
Reply to  Big Earl

Well, if you keep misleading yourself that there is only one person. Keep on doing what you are doing.

8
Reply
Katherine
Katherine
2 years ago

Is there any even point in looking for him? He’ll be released without bail and out on the streets within hours, free to do this again and again and again. It’s most likely one of dozens of arrests on his record already.

34
Reply
UWS Dad
UWS Dad
2 years ago

Thought NYPD are supposed to be patrolling the subway?

3
Reply
Kevin
Kevin
2 years ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

Police are limited to “mezzanine duty.” Most NYC cops have no idea what a subway train even looks like.

0
Reply
Jimbo
Jimbo
2 years ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

Think the city council prefers social workers to patrol subway. But hard to tell who the social workers are, will they be in some kind of uniform?

8
Reply
Sue Timms
Sue Timms
2 years ago

The usual. No police presence to prevent crime. And if they are present they do nothing. Then they rely on cameras and the public to solve crime. Basically police officers are secretaries who write down crime reports and tips. That’s it.

13
Reply
S G
S G
2 years ago
Reply to  Sue Timms

Why should they when “Hochul the Horrible”, the Mayor, and the ever so bright Manhattan DA look the other way, make excuses and even justify deviant behavior? I remember NYC before the mid 90’s when Giuliani implemented the “broken windows” policing strategy and data driven analysis. That’s all been brushed away and replaced by “social justice” driven policies.

11
Reply
good humor
good humor
2 years ago
Reply to  Sue Timms

How can they prevent this? A man was sitting, and then committed a crime? What could police do? They can’t and shouldn’t stop and frisk.

2
Reply
OPOD
OPOD
2 years ago
Reply to  Sue Timms

Remember a couple of years ago there were thousand of people in the street? Protesting the NYPD, Yelling F the Police, Defund the Police, Thousands of people, while MILLIONS of New Yorkers stood by and watched as their Police Department was Attacked, watched as their Police Department was Defunded, watched their Police Department be Destroyed. The morale of the NYPD has been destoyed and will never come back. Few people want the job anymore recuitement is nearly impossible and Cops are leaving in record numbers. Couple this with Alvin Bragg and Bail reform and it’s almost certain crime will continue to rise.

31
Reply
Sidney Owl
Sidney Owl
2 years ago
Reply to  OPOD

There was no defunding. All they did was move the school safety officers from NYPD to DOE but nothing really changed. There’s no excuse for NYPD to do its job to anything other than the best of their ability.

4
Reply
LAWRENCE BRAVERMAN
LAWRENCE BRAVERMAN
2 years ago
Reply to  OPOD

That whole “Defund the Police” slogan was twisted for partisan reasons so that its meaning was lost. Here, as far as I’m concerned, is what it was about, before it was & turned into a bludgeon to beat on the left (of which I do not consider myself a member).

Broadly speaking, let’s assume the police take 100 calls; most are about violent criminal complaints where the police are exactly the right people to call, but some, say maybe 25% are about people in mental distress, family arguments, nose complaints, women about to give birth; not true police work, but who else you gonna send?

Anyway, take away that 25%, from the police (both the funding AND the responsibility of responding to those calls) & instead send social workers/nurses/psychologists; a new organization that would utilize a different approach to persons in distress, without the need of guns and handcuffs.

The police would no longer be sent out on those calls because the police are a hammer. When you need a hammer it’s the perfect tool, but when you don’t it’s inappropriate and people sometimes die due to being inappropriately hammered by the police.

The police should absolutely have enough funding to do their jobs, it’s just that the description of police work would be edited down and those people with different more therapeutic skill-sets would instead respond to some calls where previously only the police were sent.

But that devolved, for political reasons into, instead: Get rid of the police!

No one meant that because it’s simply ludicrous to call for getting rid of all police.

It was never the idea until the far right made a parody of the original idea, turned it into a straw man they could beat on to fulfill their own partisan agenda.

5
Reply
Frahnco
Frahnco
2 years ago
Reply to  OPOD

The police department was never “defunded” nor was it “destroyed”. If cops were offended by citizens protesting the extreme brutality of cops, to the point of refusing to do their jobs, then they should find new employment.

17
Reply
Tina
Tina
2 years ago

I remember being in my 20’s and this would happen to me a lot, one time i got a cop at the next stop and he told me “what do you expect? look how you look” This has been going on for years and nobody cares about young woman being sexually abused on subways. Of course now that I’m in my 40s doesn’t happen anymore, they go after young girls and women.

15
Reply
good humor
good humor
2 years ago

It’s going to be hard to help find the police find “a man carrying a blue umbrella”.

5
Reply
LAWRENCE BRAVERMAN
LAWRENCE BRAVERMAN
2 years ago
Reply to  good humor

…especially if it’s raining out.

1
Reply
J.L.
J.L.
2 years ago

Brian Lehrer did a deep dive into this summer’s crime numbers on yesterday’s leading segment.

https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl

A closer look at the numbers (reported) vs perception. 2019 vs 2022.

0
Reply
Allison
Allison
2 years ago

This might actually be the same guy that grabbed my ass on the southbound B or D train in 2015! No one helped when I yelped in shock, and another guy actually shouted that I was only upset “because a black man” grabbed my ass. Genuinely one of the worst, most dehumanizing moments of my NY life.

0
Reply

YOU MIGHT LIKE...

Man Stabbed Multiple Times on Upper West Side, Attacker Arrested: NYPD
CRIME

Man Stabbed Multiple Times on Upper West Side, Attacker Arrested: NYPD

June 23, 2025 | 11:25 AM
FOOD

Here’s the UWS Dish: Covacha’s Flautas

June 23, 2025 | 8:11 AM
Previous Post

Baseball, Soccer, Golf…Find Your Child’s Favorite Fall Sports Program on the UWS!

Next Post

Isaac Bashevis Singer Boulevard: Like Its Namesake, at the Center of the Upper West Side

this week's events image
Next Post
Isaac Bashevis Singer Boulevard: Like Its Namesake, at the Center of the Upper West Side

Isaac Bashevis Singer Boulevard: Like Its Namesake, at the Center of the Upper West Side

Openings and Closings: Really Great Things; Made in New York Pizza; Royale Cleaners; El Coco; Columbus Gourmet Food

Openings and Closings: Really Great Things; Made in New York Pizza; Royale Cleaners; El Coco; Columbus Gourmet Food

Donation Drive for Asylum-Seeking Families Starts Thursday at School on 105th Street

Donation Drive for Asylum-Seeking Families Starts Thursday at School on 105th Street

  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • NEWSLETTER
  • WSR MERCH!
  • ADVERTISE
  • EVENTS
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • TERMS OF USE
  • SITE MAP
Site design by RLDGROUP

© 2025 West Side Rag | All rights reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • TOP NEWS
  • THIS WEEK’S EVENTS
  • OPEN/CLOSED
  • FOOD
  • SCHOOLS
  • OUTDOORS
  • REAL ESTATE
  • ART & CULTURE
  • POLITICS
  • COLUMNS
  • CRIME
  • HISTORY
  • ABSURDITY
  • ABOUT
    • OUR STORY
    • CONTRIBUTORS
    • CONTACT US
  • WSR SHOP

© 2025 West Side Rag | All rights reserved.