It was a violent Christmas in the New York City subway system.
In one incident a 37-year-old MTA worker was pepper sprayed through a train window as she was operating a train. The northbound 2 train was pulling into the 135th St. and Lenox Ave. Station at around 3 a.m. when the attack occurred.The attacker took off and was not caught.
Another incident took place just before noon on a northbound 6 train as it approached the 33rd St. Station in Manhattan. Two men got into an argument. One of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the other man in the torso.EMS took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Another person was the victim of an armed robbery in a subway station. It happened around 9:30 a.m. on an R train platform of the 25th St. Station in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.
A 31-year-old man and 30-year-old woman, believed to be tourists, were approached and robbed by a man who then jumped on a train and took off. The victim was not hurt.In one incident a 52-year-old man, believed to be homeless, was found dead on an L train at the last stop at Rockaway Parkway in East New York, Brooklyn. It was believed to be a medical issue and not criminal in nature.
Also, a man was hit and killed by an F train just before midnight. The man was believed to have dropped something onto the tracks at a Jackson Heights, Queens subway station and had hopped down to retrieve it when the train was pulling into the station.
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