With a recent trip to New York over Christmas break, so many events happened with such little time. New York, known as The City That Never Sleeps, proved this on New Year’s Eve with the most shocking subway incident. A man survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an incoming train in New York City on New Year’s Eve and is expected to fully recover, relatives said. The man accused of pushing him is being held without bail on attempted murder and assault charges. Joseph Lynskey, 45, was standing on the platform at the West 18th Street station in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon when another man pushed him onto the tracks as a 1 train approached. Police called it a random attack. Lynskey’s condition has been upgraded from critical to stable, police said. His injuries include a fractured skull, broken ribs, and a ruptured spleen. “Miraculously, he survived the horrific attack, but he suffered many injuries and remains hospitalized in NY,” his sister, Jennifer Lynskey, wrote in a Facebook post. “Anyone who’s ever met Joe knows he’s one of the kindest, most thoughtful, and caring humans out there.”

While another man is facing murder and arson charges in New York City for allegedly setting a woman on fire inside a subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames, police said Monday. The suspect, identified by police as Sebastian Zapeta, was taken into custody hours after the woman died on Sunday morning. Zapeta, 33, is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally after he had been previously removed in 2018, said Jeff Carter, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Surveillance video showed the suspect approach the woman, who was sitting motionless and may have been sleeping, on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn and set her clothing on fire, police said. The woman’s clothing “became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” said Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner, while the suspect remained at the scene, watching her burn from a bench on the subway platform as police and a transit worker extinguished the flames.

Ending the crazy New York shenanigans, the last man who was attacked on a New York City subway and fatally stabbed one of his assailants will not be criminally charged, a prosecutor said as four men were indicted on assault and robbery charges. The 69-year-old man was sleeping on a train in Queens early on the morning of Dec. 22 when a group of men tried to steal his bags. The resulting struggle captured on video shows the unidentified 69-year-old surrounded by several men and being punched and kicked at the end of a subway car. The man stabbed two of the attackers, Stalin Moya and Philipe Pena. Moya, 37, died from his injuries. The man who was attacked was taken to a hospital with abrasions, lacerations, contusions, and bleeding to his head and face. “The victim was accosted, without provocation, and our investigation has shown that he defended himself while attempting to retrieve his property,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement on Wednesday. “As a result, my office will not be filing charges for the fatality.” With so much in so little time, I can only imagine what New York will bring to us next.