Four teen girls were busted this week for allegedly pummeling a 71-year-old woman during a botched New Year’s Day robbery inside a Brooklyn subway station – as the fearless senior, who was on her way ...

Linda Rosa, 71 – a retired MTA computer operation worker who lives in East New York – got off a No. 3 train at Hoyt Street just after 6 p.m. and had just passed through the turnstile when one ...

They have asked for the public's help in tracking them down. The woman, identified by the Post as Linda Rosa from East New York, detailed the disturbing attack to the publication, saying she was ...

"I [thought to myself], ‘Oh, no, this is not going to happen today,’ ” Linda Rosa recalled of the incident Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

Don’t mess with 71-year-old Linda Rosa. Four teens tried to steal her purse as she was exiting a Brooklyn subway station, and it didn’t end well — for them. As Rosa tells it, she grabbed two ...

And just last week, on New Year’s Day, 71-year-old Linda Rosa was on her way to church services when four teen girls tried to snatch her purse as she exited a Brooklyn subway station.

A plucky elderly woman on her way to a New Year’s Day church service fought back when a violent group of teen girls pummeled her during a botched robbery inside a Brooklyn subway station, cops said.

An elderly New York City woman fought off four potential robbers on New Year’s Day. Linda Rosa, a retired MTA worker from East New York in Brooklyn, was on her way to a church service on ...

An elderly New York City woman fought off four potential robbers on New Year’s Day. Linda Rosa, a retired MTA worker from East New York in Brooklyn, was on her way to a church service on Wednesday, ...