--- title: Transgender Woman Pushed Into Subway Tracks description: A transgender woman was pushed into the subway tracks on Monday by a man in New York City. canonical: https://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-03T19:51:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:53:03.047Z article:section: Health og:title: Transgender Woman Pushed Into Subway Tracks og:description: A transgender woman was pushed into the subway tracks on Monday by a man in New York City. og:url: https://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Transgender Woman Pushed Into Subway Tracks twitter:description: A transgender woman was pushed into the subway tracks on Monday by a man in New York City. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Transgender Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks in Apparent Hate Crime by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 3, 2015 7:51 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 3, 2015 7:51 PM UTC A man pushed a transgender woman onto a subway track in New York City on Monday, an incident the New York Police Department is investigating as a hate crime. The man [reportedly](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Woman-Pushed-Subway-Tracks-Man-Acting-Erratically-Greenwich-Village-Manhattan-NYC-305925561.html?%5Fosource=SocialFlowTwt%5FNYBrand) was behaving erratically at the subway station at Lafayette and Bleecker streets in Manhattan where the woman was waiting for the southbound 6 train. He allegedly asking the woman, “What are you looking at?” He then grabbed a plastic bottle out of the trash and threw it at her, before pushing her onto the tracks. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital for minor injuries like cuts and bruises and was released. The man ran away from the scene and remains unidentified. Other commuters helped the woman back onto the platform. The police are hoping surveillance footage of the man will help them track him down. A spokesman for the NYPD told TIME the crime would be investigated by its hate crimes taskforce. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/"},"headline":"Transgender Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks in Apparent Hate Crime","datePublished":"2015-06-03T19:51:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:53:03.047Z","description":"NYPD are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime","url":"https://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/","keywords":["Crime","Transgender"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/","name":"Transgender Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks in Apparent Hate Crime"}}]}] ```