The incident happened just after 8:30 a.m. on Monday. A video from a witness shows the man who has been identified as Timothy Barbee hitting Rakitin across the face, sending his glasses flying.

An LIRR rider was slashed in the face on a train in Queens on Monday in a horrifying caught-on-video attack — days after an armed straphanger launched violence that ended with himself shot in… ...

Police in New York City are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect who slashed another man in the face when he tried to intervene in a fight aboard a Brooklyn subway train last week.

EAST VILLAGE -- What started as just an average morning commute in New York turned ended in an assault case. Allex Rakitin said he was on the N train heading to work at 8:30 a.m. on Monday ...