Overview

• Police are searching for an unidentified black woman with red dreadlocks who entered a parked N train just after 4 a.m. Thursday.
• An off-duty transit worker spotted the suspect boarding the train at Astoria’s Broadway station and alerted authorities.
• By the time a train service supervisor arrived 30 minutes later, the train had been moved one stop east to the 36th Avenue station.
• Transit sources report no damage to the train and no signs of forced entry, and service on the line was not interrupted.
• This is the third unauthorized train takeover in Queens in under a year, prompting the MTA to consider alarms and biometric controls at layup tracks.