Watch Out at the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer Subway Station

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This story is much more frightening due to the fact that it happened in the middle of the afternoon.

Yesterday, around 3:30pm, NYPD authorities believe two Hispanic men stabbed three African-American men at the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer subway station in Queens. The bloody encounter was a result of an argument between the two parties; two of the African-American males were stabbed in the stomach and another was stabbed in the leg. The suspected perpetrators escaped the station while the three males were rushed to the nearby Jamaica hospital. They are currently in critical but stable condition.

Soon after the attack, trains headed to the J and E line hub were shut down due to the investigation. According to Gothamist, the MTA shut down service to the station around 4:50 p.m. but it looks like it's up and running now. However, no word on the whereabouts of the stabbers at the station.

So, yeah, watch your back.

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New Yorker Comes to the Aid of Fellow Subway Rider

Though I've seen my fair share of strange incidents caught on video camera and phone, this one is actually warms my (cold, brittle, feminist) heart a bit.

The video, taken at 9:30 pm on Friday night at the Lorimer Street L station, shows the inside of a subway car just as an altercation breaks out -- a woman accuses a young man, yelling, "he touched me," and another man comes to her aid, dragging the assailant off the train in order to wait for the police.


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Seeing Space Shuttle Enterprise From the Q Train: A Close Encounter of the Manhattan Bridge Kind

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Not the view from the Manhattan Bridge, but it still felt pretty damn close

See C.S. Muncy's photos from the Shuttle landing at JFK

Knowing the Space Shuttle Enterprise was going to be arriving today in New York City, I was extremely pissed off to realize I had a doctor's appointment which would preclude me from actively viewing it, and I'd most likely be underground in the subway when it flew over the Hudson, guaranteeing I wouldn't even catch a glimpse of it. I was also glad, but extremely jealous, that Voice contributor C.S. Muncy would get a front row seat at JFK Airport. My self-pity doubled down when I listened to the Brian Lehrer Show's call in segment of similar space geeks from their perches around the city and in New Jersey.

My only hope was that, in my subway travels on the Q train, I might, maybe have the chance to snatch a glimpse in the three minute window in which the train crossed the Manhattan Bridge. This, I knew, was an implausibly long shot. Using extremely scientific reasoning, I estimated that the odds of the 747 ferrying the Enterprise lifting off from Washington, D.C., flying over the Verrazano, passing by the Statue of Liberty, going up the Hudson, and swinging back over the harbor just as my Q train was on the bridge were about 3,720 to 1...the same odds C-3P0 gave the Millenium Falcon of "successfully navigating an asteroid field."

Well, the odds were with Captain Han Solo and also with me, because I had a close encounter with the Enterprise at exactly the right moment.


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Man Caught For Illegally Entering Times Square Station In Possession of Loaded Gun

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Entering the subway through an exit gate: illegal. Entering the subway through an exit gate in possession of a controlled substance and a loaded gun: very illegal. That's is how cops arrested Travis Marks of Virginia Friday evening at the Times Square subway station, NY1 reported. Police told Runnin' Scared that police were about to stop him for illegally entering the system. When they approached him, he threw a bag containing white powdery substance, trying to rid himself of it. Only after the man was already arrested did cops search him and find the gun.

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Jose Rojas, Subway Pusher, Found Guilty of Shoving Ute Linhart into Oncoming Train

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Ute Linhart was waiting for a northbound train at the West 28th Street N/R Stop on Aug 11, 2010.

As she stood there, a drunk man -- Jose Rojas -- was accosting some other commuters on the narrow platform.

He then walked directly toward Linhart, moved behind her, and shoved her into the oncoming train, sending her flying into the first car.

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Let's Catch These Perverts

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Cops say this creep exposed himself to a woman on the northbound 4 train on February 8, around 12:30 p.m., and they want your help finding him.

The incident took place at the 149th Street/Grand Concourse subway station in the Bronx. After the incident, the perv fled the station on foot.

The 30- to 40-year-old perv is described as 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9 and 175-190 pounds.

The scumbag is said to have a shaved head.

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If You Give Directions, You Might Get Robbed at Gunpoint -- Even in Williamsburg and Bushwick

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Hey, New Yorker! Yeah, YOU! Now you finally have good reason to be that asshole -- you know, that guy or gal who doesn't want to give directions. It could be dangerous!

Cops say the four scumbags pictured here are preying on the city's good Samaritans -- they'll stop and ask you for directions and rob you while you're distracted.

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Richard Arrocho Tries to Hijack 5 Train With a Screwdriver


And now for the most recent crazy thing that happened on a subway train and was caught on video: A screaming, screwdriver-wielding man claiming that someone with a gun wanted to kill him attempted to hijack a No. 5 train on Friday, getting into the motorman's cab via its open side window along the tracks. This went down near the 149th Street station in the Bronx, and, as happens in this day in age, some industrious soul -- Roland Baker of the Bronx -- got it on video, which the Daily News has published, along with this telling poll.


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Here Is Your Encouraging Street Art of the Day, at the Nassau G Train

You're sweltering in this heat and you have to travel deep into the barren desert wasteland of the even-hotter subway and then off to your chilly cavern of an office, where the sweat will freeze to your body and you will feel flu-like by noon, but still, there are bright sides to be had. For instance, in this cheery messaging outside the Nassau G Stop.

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Psycho Subway Mugger Still At Large; Cops Release Photo

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Cops say this is the psycho mugger. Watch your back.
​The psycho subway mugger who attacked a woman on Friday, February 4, in the East Broadway station and pushed her onto the tracks is still on the loose, but cops say they now have a photo of him. Earlier, they released a sketch of the pockmarked punk. Cops still haven't identified the Good Samaritan who fought off the attacker and plucked the woman from the tracks before an F train rumbled into the station that night.

Tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or submit tips at nypdcrimestoppers.com or text info to 274637 (CRIMES), entering TIP577.

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