Terrifying video shows man throwing woman onto New York City subway tracks
Surveillance video captured the terrifying moments when a man threw a woman onto New York City subway tracks over the weekend, police said Monday.
The attack unfolded on elevated tracks at the Jackson Avenue Station on Sunday in the Bronx at about 4:40 p.m., according to video posted by the NYPD.
The footage showed a man in a white tank top, shorts, backward baseball cap and backpack appearing to grab the woman before flinging her onto the tracks.
The 52-year-old woman was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in stable condition, police said. There had been no arrest as of Tuesday morning.
Violence on New York's vast subway system has been a growing concern of city residents and Mayor Eric Adams, who made public safety a focal point of his successful campaign last year.
A string of deadly or violent incidents on New York city rail lines in recent months have included:
Daniel Enriquez, a 48-year-old Brooklyn resident and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. employee, was gunned down on May 22 as he rode a Manhattan-bound Q train. Suspect Andrew Abdullah, 25, was arrested and did not immediately enter a plea, officials said.
Ten people were shot and 13 others were injured on April 12 after a man threw two smoke canisters and opened fire aboard an N train as it approached the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn during the morning rush hour, authorities said. A day later, police arrested Frank R. James, 62, who has pleaded not guilty to federal terrorism charges.
Michelle Go, 40, was struck and killed by a subway train on Jan. 15 after she was allegedly pushed into tracks by a homeless man in Times Square.
The string of high-profile subway incidents belie overall travel safety, one transit advocate said on Tuesday.
"Millions of people ride the subway every day and it's overwhelmingly without incident," said Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director of the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group for New York City bus and train commuters.
"But that said, we're not at the point where everyone feels safe, welcomed and included in the subway."
Subway safety appears to be on the minds of many New York City residents as 85 percent of respondents to a Siena College poll, made public Tuesday, said they want more police officers on the rails.
Pollsters interviewed 1,000 New Yorkers over the phone between May 22 and Wednesday with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
Public safety could be taking a toll on the mayor's popularity, with 74 percent of respondents saying Adams is doing a fair or poor job fighting crime while just 21 precent gave him good or excellent marks here.
