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| Topic | New Yorkers ask: Is today the day someone attacks me on subway? |
| Lebronwon 11/19/20 7:24:09 PM #1: | https://nypost.com/2020/11/19/new-yorkers-ask-is-today-the-day-someone-attacks-me-on-subway/ Anyone who rides the subway these days has these dreadful thoughts: Will today be the day Im attacked? Will this be the day Im shoved off the platform into an oncoming train? And: Where the hell is our mayor? At 8.30 am on Thursday, a 40-year-old woman was shoved on to the tracks at the northbound 4/5/6 platform at Union Square. Her attacker had been pacing the platform, parts of which are frighteningly narrow, before seeing the 5 train approach and pushing her, from behind, into its path. She was reported as lucky to have survived with minor injuries. I see it another way: She had the presence of mind to roll into the hollow between the two tracks and not move until the FDNY arrived stuck underneath two cars. How terrifying. How predictable. And how pathetic of Bill de Blasio, a feckless leader who fancies himself a champion of the little guy, the have-nots. Most subway riders now are largely hardworking people and essential workers, doing backbreaking jobs, unable to afford or abide leaving the city, who cant afford to buy a car let alone take an Uber or a cab. These people are the best of New York City, subject to this daily terror. Indeed. Consider this recent and incomplete timeline, Mr. Mayor, of brazen attacks most often occurring during the day, on platforms and lines that are normally clean, safe and well-populated. Just 12 hours before the Thursday mornings Union Square attack, a 36-year-old man waiting on the B/D platform at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street is punched in the head, then shoved on to the tracks, by a beggar angry that the straphanger wouldnt hand over cash. Hours before that, a 60-year-old woman is beaten by two assailants, a man and a woman, at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station after she told them to wear masks. Once she fell to the ground, the man kept on beating her. This was 12:20 pm. Sept 23: A 53-year-old woman is beaten on the D train after attempting to warn a sleeping passenger that he was being robbed. The suspect the would-be robber beat this woman till she fell to the floor, then kicked her for good measure. Sept 20: Three riders are hurt after a 30-year-old man, seen laughing manically to himself, threw metal clamps on to the tracks as an A train approached the 14th St.-8th Ave. station at 8:14 am. Aug 30: A woman is nearly raped in full view of waiting straphangers on the Lexington Ave.-63rd St, platform. Its 11 am on a Saturday. Aug. 6: A 41-year-old woman is slashed in the back with a long knife at the 72nd and Broadway subway. It was noon. Im finding more and more of the homeless [are] coming up to you and asking for money, a rider identified as Dee told WABC News. Some of it very belligerently, like youre supposed to. July 30: A 68-year-old woman who took the L train from 6th Ave. and 14th St. every day for the past 20 years is randomly beaten and kicked before being shoved on to the tracks. The woman suffered five broken bones, a broken rib, and was commuting from her job as a housecleaner in Chelsea to her home in Queens, where she supports her sick husband and parents. July 5: Two elderly men, 71 and 73 years old, are randomly stabbed by a 46-year-old passenger who first yells, Why arent you home with your kids? Its 7:45 am on a 7 train rolling through Sunnyside. Heinous and unprovoked, says NYPD Chief of Transit Edward Delatorre. NYC is NOT safe, the Sergeants Benevolent Association raged in a since-removed tweet. YOU are being lied to. Every commuter knows its true. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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