Inwood Woman Slapped On 1 Train Recounts Incident On Viral TikTok

INWOOD, NY — An Inwood woman has gone viral for her retelling of getting randomly slapped on a train and ranting about the current state of New York City.

"New York City is f---ed up right now," Vesly Beato, 22, said to start her now-viral TikTok about getting assaulted on the 1 train Friday on her way back to Upper Manhattan.

"I've been here my entire life and never in a million years did I ever think I would be one of those people to get assaulted on the damn train," Beato said in her video.

Beato, who got onto the train at 42nd Street, was riding the subway with her 15-year-old cousin, when a man smacked her in the face three stops later as he exited the northbound 1 train.

"The doors of 66th Street open, this man slaps the s--- out of me, and runs off the damn train," Beato says. "Mind you, we didn't make eye contact once."

Beato ended up going to the hospital, where doctors glued a cut on her nose together, but she was able to avoid stitches.

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In the days after the assault, Beato gave an interview to the New York Post where she said she's considering leaving Inwood for Florida.

“This area, the Inwood area, I never planned on leaving it,” she told the New York Post. “I never thought it would happen on the 1 train … For it to be my neighborhood train and this happens — it’s like I feel hopeless.”

Beato vowed to the New York Post that she would not take the train again.

On a slightly lighter note, Beato jokingly commented on her own video, saying that her Dominican mom wasn't so happy with the amount of cursing in it.

The TikTok video breaking down what happened has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Many of the video's top comments are from other women, saying they've also stopped taking the train because they don't feel comfortable on it.