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Female Subway Riders Attacked at Stations for Mets, Yankee Stadiums

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Female Riders Attacked on Same Weekend Near Different Ball Parks The NYPD is searching for these men in connection with a mugging near Citi Field. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice March 14, 2024 QUEENS - It was a bad weekend for NY baseball fans and the season has not even started. Subway riders were attacked at subway stations for Citi Field and Yankee Stadium - a Queens woman was robbed and a Bronx rider was viciously beaten, cops said.  At around 9 pm on March 8, a 38-year-old woman was on the platform at the Willets Point-Shea Stadium subway station. As she waited for the southbound 7 Train, two men approached.  Cops said the attackers forcibly removed the woman’s cellphone from her hands knocking her to the ground. The robbers then ran out of the station in an unknown direction.  The woman suffered a laceration to the face but refused medical attention at the scene.  Two days later another woman was attacked across town near Yankee Stadium.  At around 6 pm, a 36-year-o