The latest statistics show subway crime up 75% from this time last year, with the latest attack happening in Lower Manhattan.
A 22-year-old is in the hospital after being brutally beaten in an anti-gay attack on the A-train near the 190th Street station.The NYPD also released video of the suspect who slashed a retired police officer on a subway train in Lower Manhattan Wednesday afternoon.
The 47-year-old victim was sitting with his wife on an uptown 2 train when the suspect began arguing with him. The victim got off the train at the Wall Street station, but the suspect followed him, pulled a knife, and slashed him in the right arm. The retired officer ran up to the subway station mezzanine for help, once again followed by the suspect. But when the suspect saw the victim going to the transit booth for help, he turned around and ran away.
The retired officer got several stiches to his arm at New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and was released to go home to Centereach in Suffolk County.
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