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Severed Leg Mystery Said to Belong to Jumper at Spring Street The NYPD believes the mystery of how a human leg ended up at at Bronx subway station has been solved. They believe it belongs to a jumper in SoHo. -File Photo By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice February 21, 2024 MANHATTAN - Police believe they may have solved the mystery of how a severed human leg ended up on subway tracks in the Bronx and it started all the way down on Spring Street, cops said.  Investigators believe the leg belongs to a man whose body was discovered days earlier at the Spring Street station. The severed leg was found 9 miles away in the Bronx five days later.  Cops theorize that the man fell or jumped onto the tracks at the Spring Street station on February 12. The body was discovered but the leg could not be found.  On February MTA workers removing snow from the tracks found the severed leg between the 167th and 170th Street subway stations of the Number 4 line in the Bronx.  Investigators bel

‘Crazy Eyes’ Beat Female Worker with Metal Pipe for No Reason  Police say this man smacked an MTA cleaner upside the head with a metal pipe. By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 15, 2022  MANHATTAN - Cops say they caught the “crazy eyed” homeless man who beat a female train cleaner with a metal pipe in an apparent unprovoked attack.  Police arrested 28-year-old Jonathan Frias on Sunday at the World Trade Center station of the E Train. Cops were called when riders allegedly recognized Frias from a wild-eyed photo police released in connection with the attack.  Investigators said Frias has a previous arrest last year for punching a police officer.  At around 6:45 am on November 4, a 46-year-old woman who is employed as a subway cleaner subcontracted by the MTA worked at Chambers Street. She was cleaning the subway platform of the E train when a man approached her. He struck her in the face with a metal pipe. The man fled on foot as MTA workers chased him.  The vic