Tourist Attacked With Bottle On Subway: 'New York Is Like A Dream To Go Visit … But At This Time It's An Unsafe Place To Walk'

New York City NY

23 June, 2021

11:54 AM

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CBS New York June 23, 2021 As the mayor tries to woo tourists back to New York City, a visitor from Colombia shared her cautionary tale after an unprovoked attack on the subway landed her in the hospital. The 27-year-old tourist asked CBS2 to conceal her identity. Through a translator, she described to reporter Christina Fan how a man terrorized her on a Queens-bound E train on Monday evening, poking her face before bashing her head with a glass bottle. "I don't understand English, so I don't understand what he was saying to me. But, he screamed really loud and he was telling me a lot of things and I was frozen," she said. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.