in the first attack, a rider punched a motorman in the face. less than a hour later a rider was assaulted with a bear can. then a rider spat in the face of a motorman at the court square station. no arrests have been made in any of the incidents at this time. >>> new at noon, as city bike ex pants in new york city, the number of stolen bikes are going up. 476 of the blue rental bikes have been stolen so far this year up from 300 in all of 2014. that is an increase of nearly 60%. most of the bikes have been stolen in manhattan, the borough with the most docking stations. officials say most of the bikes are taken when they are not properly locked at those stations. >>> the search is on for a dangerous intruder on staten island. police releasing a search overnight. investigators say the suspect entered the victim's backyard gate. a 63-year-old man spotted the crook and confronted him. the suspect whipped out a sharp object and cut the man on his arm and chest sending him to stitches. >>> a man hospitalized for his brush with legionnaires is suing

. >> about an hour later another rider assaulted a different motorman aboard the c line in east new york. this was then followed by another separate attack where a suspect spit on the face of an operator at g line. police do not believe the incidents to be related, but the subway workers union would like to see more protections in place. the union said quote transit workers are exposed to assaults daily. the police need to protect transit workers. district attorneys have to stop making excuses and not enforcing the law for assault on transit workers. there are several cameras that police are reviewing hoping for some leads. live in lower manhattan, a.j. ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> a.j., thank you. >>> another wild and gut wrenching day for wall street. the day started with a rally. then it came to an end. the massive sell off in the last hour of trading. the do i down 204 points. the nasdaq down nearly 20. s&p down 25 and change. >> a major prostitution sting involving a manhattan based web site. authorities raided the headquarters of rent a boy.com today. jeffrey hern, ceo aroun

everybody came by edwin the streetcars would pass the motorman would ring the bells and they would say look over there at the first colored police man. the sightseeing buses would come along to announce here is new york's first caller policemen. then those that drove the bus is on a sightseeing tours would bring people down from different parts of this city from harlem to charge $1 each to take them to see the colored police rand. -- me and. his work chart is scheduled his first reserve duty the thursday after he started patrol. reserve duty in those days much, there were no police cars. if there was an emergency emergency, there would have to call out a lot of cops so several nights a week and had to sleep at the station house and they had dormitory's kind i'd like the fire department but large contingents would sleep in the station house. finishing been a shift committee was to sleep in the station house with the platoon on call in case of the emergency. the mystery to of overworked men and discarded shoes. the officers for from the station house resolved this is a white only domain

most have cabs, motorman's cabs at either end anyway as they come in and go out the other side. it was an innovation at the time there are two loops there. grand central is said to have the safest men's room in america on the lower level because it was built to withstand a train zooming off the tracks of one of those lower loops. so, you know, i don't think anything more need be said about that. [laughter] >> thank you so much for your presentation. at the risk of throwing the tension off of the current building, say a couple of words on if there were any outcries to the previous internations of grand central. sam: we think of grand central as a landmark, and thank goodness it was saved, but there were two incarnations at least a grand central before that, built in 1871 and 1899. it was rebuilt, the original grand central depot. they named it grand central station. after the train accident in 1902 william walters said it had to be torn down. they did not need this gorgeous open train shed because there was no more smoke from the electrified locomotives. and they could also deck

. >> reporter: police say about an hour later, another rider assaulted a different motorman aboard the c. line at uric lid avenue in east new york city. investigate investigators the -- according to investigators he struck the train operator with a can of beer. another separate attack where a suspect spit in the face of the applator on -- operator on the g. line at port square station. although police don't believe they're related. he believes that more needs to be done to protect the train operators doing their jobs. >> we work in a very hostile environment. there's all sorts of people down there and they carry weapons. i could have been easily stabbed afteryou know something worse could have happened. >> reporter: the mta released a following statement a short time ago saying quote an assault on our employees is an attack on all of us, we remain committed to the safety and security of all our employees. live in lower manhattan, this evening, i'm a.j. ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> thank you a.j.. police are meeting with real estate agents in iowa this week after disturbing thre

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