A young cellist and medical student will no longer perform his music in New York City Subway stations after being assaulted for the second time in less than a year.
The victim — Iain Forrest, an MD-PhD student studying genetics — was playing his electric cello in the 34th Street–Herald Square station when a female bystander stepped forward, grabbed his metal water bottle, and struck him once on the back of the head before fleeing. Forrest explained in a viral X thread that this was the second assault he’s endured in under a year, a pattern that he says has prompted him to stop such public performances.
“This marks the second attack I’ve endured in less than a year while performing for New Yorkers in subway stations,” said Forrest. “I don’t think I can do this anymore. I’m suspending subway performances indefinitely.”
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