Crime & Safety
Tourist Attacked With Bottle On Subway: ‘New York Is Like A Dream To Go Visit … But At This Time It's An Unsafe Place To Walk'
"I don't understand English, so I don't understand what he was saying to me. But, he screamed really loud and I was frozen in place."
June 23, 2021
As the mayor tries to woo tourists back to New York City, a visitor from Colombia shared her cautionary tale after an unprovoked attack on the subway landed her in the hospital.
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The 27-year-old tourist asked CBS2 to conceal her identity. Through a translator, she described to reporter Christina Fan how a man terrorized her on a Queens-bound E train on Monday evening, poking her face before bashing her head with a glass bottle.
“I don’t understand English, so I don’t understand what he was saying to me. But, he screamed really loud and he was telling me a lot of things and I was frozen,” she said.
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