{"id":4927,"date":"2026-07-20T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:11:05","slug":"unhinged-nyc-vagrant-grins-as-hes-charged-with-hitting-baby-girl-in-stroller-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged NYC vagrant grins as he&#8217;s charged with hitting baby girl in stroller: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A deranged vagrant who allegedly hit a helpless baby girl with a cellphone in an unprovoked attack in Manhattan is an unhinged career criminal with more than two dozen busts on his rap sheet, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4925\">Pentagon identifies 2 US soldiers killed in weekend attack by Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marc Okon, 49, smiled as he was arraigned on assault and child endangerment charges after police said he went off on a crazed rampage near Bryant Park on Saturday morning, striking the youngster with the phone and trying to hurl it at her mom in a shocking broad-daylight attack.<\/p>\n<p>Okon is no stranger to NYPD handcuffs, police said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The homeless nut has been arrested 25 times since 2018, including for forcible touching, public lewdness, menacing, grand larceny, criminal mischief and petty larceny, cops said. <\/p>\n<p>The violent vagrant was busted at least three times last year, most recently in July 2025 on a public lewdness rap on the Upper West Side \u2014 and was arrested twice the month before, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The most recent arrest came Saturday, when police said he approached the 39-year-old mom as she pushed her young daughter in a stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4923\">Trump says new Qatar-donated Air Force One to go out of service to \u2018max out\u2019 defenses<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cops said the nut unexpectedly threw a phone and struck the baby girl in the arm in her stroller \u2014 then picked up the device and hurled it at the stunned mom, missing her. <\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Okon at the scene, and he was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court as of late Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The troubling attack comes after another homeless maniac slashed five people at Penn Station during a random attack, and in May, a homeless man with 22 prior arrests beat and choked another vagrant to death in the Bronx after he was woken from a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4921\">New York leads nation in school spending \u2014 despite 12% fewer students<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Okon, who is homeless, had been busted more than two dozen times before police said he attacked a mom and her baby at a Manhattan park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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