Jun. 20, 2025 By Adam Daly
A 25-year-old mother and her 11-month-old daughter were hospitalized Friday morning after being sprayed with an “unknown substance” during a dispute with an irate straphanger over a cellphone aboard the M train in Long Island City, according to police.
The assault occurred around 11 a.m. on a southbound M train as it approached the Court Square–23rd Street station, an NYPD spokesperson said.
Police said the suspect, described as an angry passenger, asked the woman to use her cellphone both before boarding and again while on the train. When she refused both times, the suspect allegedly sprayed the woman and her child with an unidentified substance as the train pulled into the station.