A 54-year-old man was pushed onto the New York Subway tracks at a Brooklyn station yesterday morning.
The New York Police (NYPD) later announced the arrest of a suspect in the incident that occurred around 10 am Tuesday at the 25th Street station in Bay Ridge.
Miraculously the unidentified victim did not make contact with a train or touch the third rail. MTA workers and other passengers helped him back onto the tracks. He was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries.
The unidentified suspect fled the scene but was arrested shortly thereafter. Charges against him were pending. The motive for the attack is not clear, reported Fox News.
Since taking office in January 2022, former NYPD Mayor Eric Adams has announced multiple times that he would double the number of NYPD officers in the subway system in a beefed-up security plan to address violence in the chaotic NYC Subway. But so far crime and chaos have continued.
On Monday a man was slashed on the arm inside a Lower Manhattan station and then tripped over the subway tracks, miraculously saving his life.
Earlier this month Jordan Neely (30), a man with a police record and mental illness, strangled to death in the middle of a confusing incident inside a subway car. Marine Daniel Penny (24), whom some have called a “hero,” was arrested in the controversial case and charged with second-degree manslaughter.
Also this month Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy, a 35-year-old artist, was left paralyzed after being pushed “at random” at a station in Midtown Manhattan.
At the same time, MTA faces losses of $690 million dollars annually due to the increasing number of users who access the Metro and buses without paying.
In January, an estimated 3,400 homeless people were living in subway cars and stations. In addition, train collisions with people on platforms and rails have experienced an alarming increase of 25% in the last four years (2018 to 2022).