An aged straphanger was randomly shoved onto subway tracks on the Herald Sq. station in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, in line with police.
The 72-year-old sufferer was standing on the northbound F prepare platform on the thirty fourth Avenue-Herald Sq. station round 12:15 p.m. when the unknown creep got here up behind him and pushed him onto the tracks, an NYPD rep stated.
The rider was helped again onto the platform by different straphangers and brought to Bellevue Hospital with minor accidents — whereas his cowardly attacker fled and stays on the unfastened.
Subway-shoving assaults stay a security concern for a lot of New Yorkers who experience the rails.
Final week, a 74-year-old man was pushed onto tracks in The Bronx by a 28-year-old nut who then tried to assert, “I didn’t do it” earlier than cops slapped on the cuffs.
Earlier this month, a 43-year-old shoving sufferer additionally advised The Put up {that a} crazed lady who shoved him onto the rails in Brooklyn in one other unprovoked assault was “arguing” with herself earlier than the assault.
In October, one other transit nut was charged with tried homicide for pushing an 82-year-old lady onto the tracks at a No. 7 prepare station in Flushing, Queens, injuring the sufferer.
Metropolis officers word that crime is down within the Huge Apple however have acknowledged that there’s nonetheless a notion of concern amongst many New Yorkers who experience the subways.
