If you ride the N, your trip will eventually be more aesthetically pleasing (or less, depending on your tastes). The Sun reports that:

Patrick McCormick, an unemployed 34-year-old from Sheepshead Bay, was apprehended on Saturday afternoon on the A train at Beach 98th Street when he removed a hammer from his backpack and smashed a hole in a subway car window. Police officers said that McCormick did not see Officer Owen Manico, a uniformed police officer, approach him from behind.Police officers speculate that McCormick may have been in the process of destroying a rival's graffiti tag when he was arrested.... McCormick's tag — "MAP" — is found most frequently carved into N train windows. It has also been found above ground, most recently spraypainted at an MTA bus terminal on West Street.


McCormick, one of the NYPD's "50 most wanted vandals," has been in trouble with the law before, most seriously in 1989, when, as a sixteen-year-old, he burned a homeless guy to death. The obvious question: Who gets this one, regular Law & Order or the one with the dude from Full Metal Jacket?

Police Arrest a 'Worst of the Worst' Graffiti Tagger on Subway Train
Man Found Burned And a Youth Is Held [NYT]

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