A woman was allegedly punched in the face and elbowed after she told a man to stop touching her leg on a Queens subway train. Police are now looking for the person who assaulted her. The incident happened aboard a Manhattan-bound E train near the Court Square-23rd Street station at 7:50 a.m. on May 30, [...]
An MTA worker was killed on the job when a subway train struck him in Astoria early this morning, said the transit agency. The signal maintainer, identified as 58-year-old Louis Moore of Hollis, was working on the system around 3:20 a.m. when a Parsons-Archer-bound E train entering the 46th Street and Broadway station fatally hit him. “An [...]
The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance with the whereabouts and identifying individuals wanted in connection to an assault aboard the “E” train at the Union Turnpike station. On Thursday, January 24 at approximately 4:45 p.m., three Hispanic males assaulted a 19-year-old male by punching and kicking him. EMS responded and brought the victim to [...]
A man sleeping on the tracks of the “E”/”M”/”R” station in Woodside lost his legs to a subway train Sunday. According to CBS New York, around 4:40 a.m., a 26-year-old man from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was laying on the tracks in an allegedly drunken state, when a northbound “E” train severed his legs. He was [...]
A man wanted for forcibly touching a woman while she was waiting for the subway at the Queensboro Plaza station Wednesday morning has been arrested, said police. Around 10:40 a.m. yesterday, Andres Lara, 25, of East Elmhurst, allegedly grabbed the behind of a 27-year-old woman as she waited on the Manhattan bound No.7 train platform, [...]
Police are searching for a man wanted for snatching five electronic devices over the past month on trains in Queens and Brooklyn. Four cell phones and an iPad were stolen in the incidents that all occurred E, F, or R trains as they entered the station, according to police. The five victims were all women between the [...]
MTA Work Delays Manhattan-Bound E and F Trains from Queens Subway riders in Queens may need to give themselves extra time to make it into Manhattan, due to a big MTA project starting this weekend. Maintenance on the Queens Boulevard Line will take the Manhattan-bound E and F local track out of service. Read more: [...]
Funeral of Ramarley Graham, unarmed teen shot by cops, is held at Bronx church Hundreds gathered in a Bronx church Saturday to mourn the death of an unarmed teen shot and killed by police inside his home this month. The body of Ramarley Graham, 18, lay in an open casket as more than 400 relatives [...]
A Jackson Heights politician is fed-up with the foul fowl feces that shroud the face of the neighborhood’s premier subway station. Councilmember Daniel Dromm says he is perturbed by the pigeon poop problem casting a shadow over the 74th Street station on Roosevelt Avenue, which hosts the No. 7, “E,” “F,” “R” and “M” trains. [...]
The subway in Kew Gardens smells like anything but a bed of roses. Commuters waiting at the Union Turnpike “E” and “F” train station have complained recently of a revolting stench engulfing the platforms. “The smell is really bad, like something crawled down here and died,” said Jamie Skipper, a Kew Gardens resident who utilizes [...]
