64-year-old man kicked onto roadbed at Penn Station in first of 2 subway assaults Sunday

Metro

By Larry Celona and David Propper

A 64-year-old straphanger was kicked onto a roadbed at Penn Station within the first of two subway assaults that came about on the Massive Apple’s beleaguered transit system Sunday, in accordance with police.

The person was kicked within the again by a male stranger on the thirty fourth Avenue-Eighth Avenue northbound A, C, E line platform round 5 p.m., inflicting him to fall onto the tracks, authorities mentioned.

He was helped again to security by different straphangers and was then taken to Lenox Well being Greenwich Village Hospital the place he was handled for knee and again ache, police mentioned.

The sufferer was on his telephone when the suspect approached him and requested a query, regulation enforcement sources mentioned. The sufferer didn’t perceive the assailant, who then carried out his assault, sources mentioned.

In a separate assault round 8 p.m. on Sunday, a 19-year-old girl was punched within the face by a feminine assailant after the 2 obtained into an argument on the mezzanine stage of the 168th Avenue subway station in Washington Heights, cops mentioned.

An 18-year-old man who was with the 19-year-old additionally had his telephone stolen after he dropped it whereas attempting to interrupt up the dispute, police mentioned.

The younger girl was taken to NY Presbyterian-Columbia College Medical Heart in secure situation.

No arrests have been made in both case because the probes proceed.

The 2 subway incidents are the most recent pattern of elevated violence that has gripped the town’s transit system in current weeks, together with a number of shootings and stabbings.