As a renewed sense of optimism sweeps the US this summer with lower reported Covid-19 cases, the US Surgeon General has issued a warning for those not vaccinated: don't let your guard down quite yet.
The work which shuttered service between Jay St.-MetroTech and Utica Ave. to replace rails and track plates and upgrade switches forced beachgoers to switch to slow-crawling shuttle buses or pay an extra fare on the Long Island Rail Road.
Edwin Tomas Guarcas, 22, is facing assault and reckless endangerment charges for the unprovoked attack at the Broadway Junction train station in Cypress Hills at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The victim, who is in her 60s, was waiting for a Queens-bound J train at the Broadway Junction stop in Cypress Hills at about 1:30 p.m. when the man pushed her, cops said. She fell onto the track bed, cutting her leg, and a group of fellow commuters helped pull her back onto the platform, police said.