Baby-faced thugs armed with bat, knife mug NYC straphanger before shoving him out of train car

Five baby-faced crooks wielding a baseball bat, a knife and pieces of wood mugged a straphanger before shoving him out of a Brooklyn subway car during his early-morning commute last week, cops said.The 44-year-old victim was riding a southbound F train approaching the 18th Avenue station in Borough Park around 6 a.m.Jan.

14 when the aggressive group of strangers stormed up to him with the weapons, authorities said. The crew — a mixed group of teen boys and girls — grabbed the victim’s cellphone and then shoved him out of the subway car onto the platform, cops said. The victim did not report any injuries. The crooks stayed on the train and were still at large Wednesday, when the NYPD released surveillance footage of the wanted menaces.Video shows the careless crew traipsing through an empty subway car, some holding the slabs of lumber.Felony crime on the rails overall plunged about 36% so far this year through Sunday, compared to the first few weeks of 2024, according to the latest NYPD data.Felony assaults, specifically, were down from 40 to 27 for that same time frame, the data shows. Misdemeanor assaults were up from 68 to 106, according to the statistics. ...