C.S. Muncy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Sketch of subway psycho

​Cops have released a sketch of a crazy mugger who attacked a woman Friday night in the East Broadway subway station and pushed her on the tracks.

Now he'd better watch his back. Sabrina Scott, 39, is recovering from her wounds, and her boyfriend, Terry Lawrence, hasn't, telling the Daily News, "If I saw the attacker--there would be no words. There would be nothing to say. I would beat his brains in."

A good Samaritan, identity also unknown but described as a tall black man, wearing headphones and a baseball cap, fought off the attacker and plucked Scott off the tracks before an F train rumbled into the station.

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