I was stabbed in the face on the 2 train platform at 3rd Ave 149th street. Random woman sat next to me, squeezed into a seat she couldn't fit. Started elbowing me in my ribs. I politely asked her to stop, she got up, called me a fat bitch (I was chubby at the time) and then started harassing me. She stood over me, having her Duane reade bag hit my legs. I asked her to stop, she told me it was because the train was moving. I flung the bag down the subway car and told her to leave me the fuck alone. Everyone stared. She picked up the bag, started muttering shit and digging through her purse. I was going to call the cops after 3rd Ave (because the train goes outdoors then). Doors open at 3rd Ave, she tries to take my bookbag and run off the train. I grab the other end and she attempted to sucker punch me on the platform. I beat the shit out of her. I remember being on the ground next to the train just punching her and her screaming "stop you're hurting me🤷🏾‍♀️". Then I hear people screaming I was stabbed. With adrenaline I didn't feel anything but saw the blood pouring down. I got off her and grabbed my face while trying to follow her and gather my stuff. She managed to escape and slip through the NYPD cameras. EMS was upstairs and I was transported to Lincoln hospital. Received 6 stitches on my cheek and a tetanus shot.

This was 11 years ago. I took metro north ever since then. Before I left NYC on Feb 1 of this year, I carried a hunting knife with the hook to take out entrails and a sock with rusted truck bolts.

I've had men masturbate looking at me, 3 weeks ago caught a guy filming me on the 7 train. I've had men threaten me because I asked him to not push me. On metro north (new Haven line) in January I had a drug addict threaten to kill me in front of the MTA police because I had to use the bathroom and got the conductor because she was hiding in there to avoid her fare.

Oh I also had a woman on metro north (before the pandemic, when they had quiet cars) follow me threatening to kill me because I asked her to move to a non quiet car to have her phone conversation. She kept following me after we got off the train until I went directly to the police standing next to the escalators and she backed off.

I'm so fucking happy I left that hellhole and no longer have to worry about my life being snuffed out by crazies.