Last month, an MTA conductor on duty was punched in the face while trying to break up a fight at a subway station in Queens, and the assailant remains on the run, police said.
Authorities say the 36-year-old victim saw a disturbance erupt on the platform of the Parsons Boulevard/Archer Avenue Jamaica Center station on May 20 at approximately 11:50 p.m. and intervened.
The assailant then punched him and fled, police said.
Police said the blow caused minor injuries to the traffic worker.
The assailant, who remains at large, was seen in a photo released by the NYPD late Tuesday described as a man with dark skin, between 35 and 40 years old, weighing about 180 pounds and of thin build.
When last seen, he was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, gray jeans and a black do-rag.
Police say the attack came just weeks after an errant strap attendant shoved an on-duty MTA driver to the ground on a stopped train at a subway terminus in Queens.
According to police, on the night of May 5, the 38-year-old worker was helping passengers off an M Line train at Middle Village Metropolitan Avenue station and was moving the train into a storage area when the monster suddenly attacked him.
Police said the employee was slammed hard into the floor of his vehicle and was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center with back pain.
Police said a 44-year-old woman working as an MTA cleaner was sprayed with an unknown substance while waking up a woman who was sleeping on a Bronx-bound train in late April.
