Traffic & Transit

Serial Subway Shover Also Pushed Queens Rider Into Train: Report

The subway bandit who shoved a woman into a train in Brooklyn, seen in a viral video​, reportedly pushed another rider in Queens.

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JAMAICA, QUEENS — The subway bandit who was arrested last week for shoving a woman into a train in Brooklyn, seen in a viral video, reportedly pushed another rider into a train in Queens just hours before.

The victim told the New York Post that Isaiah Thompson pushed him into an idling train at the Jamaica-179th Street E/F subway station on Wednesday.

The 58-year-old Queens man said he'd told Thompson not to spit on the ground before he got hit in the face and slammed into the train, according to the Post.

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Hours later, Thompson was filmed shoving a woman into a train at the DeKalb Avenue subway station in Fort Greene.

The 23-year-old subway saboteur had been out on bail after getting arrested in May for pulling subway brakes and causing hundreds of delays.

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Thompson has been arrested at least 17 times for crimes involving the transit system, according to The New York Times.

He has been blamed for more than 700 subway delays by pulling trains' emergency brakes and causing other acts of mayhem, the Post reported.

Patch editor Anna Quinn contributed reporting.

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