More facts have emerged from yesterday's subway face slashing. Despite initial reports that the attack on the 3 train took place with a pencil, it now appears the weapon was a pen. And that cigarette that the attacker was supposedly lighting up on the subway? It was actually more like a blunt. Perhaps he thought yesterday was 4/20? more ›

[Update Below] As much as we love the subway—and boy do we love the subway—we do have some not-entirely irrational fears about it. Like, what if we end up on the garbage train? What if we get in the middle of a food-related fight? What if the rat guy is in our car? And more seriously, what if we fall into the tracks? Now we can add another probably irrational fear to that list: What if a homeless man stabs us in the head with a pencil? more ›

Yesterday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the trial began in the case of Kenny Alexis, a homeless man who was arrested in 2006 after stabbing three tourists, one of whom he knifed in the heart while riding the downtown C train. The victim, 24-year-old Christopher McCarthy told the jury, "Your body isn't ready for it. You prick your finger, you cut your hand slicing a bagel—this was 1,000 times worse. Maybe more." Alexis is trying to get off on an insanity defense, claiming he is a paranoid schizophrenic. In opening statements, assistant DA Christopher Ryan said, “Even people who are deeply, deeply mentally ill know the difference between right and wrong. Mr. Alexis is an antisocial, ill-tempered man who’s angry at the world.” more ›