A search for an escaped, handcuffed prisoner snarled subway service across much of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and into the Bronx late Monday morning, the authorities said.
After a man was arrested at his home on Monday in connection with a string of thefts, the police said, he jumped out of a police car near 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem around 10:15 a.m., pushing an officer and scurrying into a nearby subway station.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it had suspended service on the entire B line and on D trains between 34th Street in Manhattan and 161st Street in the Bronx, as well as A and C trains from 59th Street to 168th Street in Manhattan.
Shortly after noon, a police spokesman said that the search for the man was “still active.â€
