An elderly straphanger was randomly thrown onto the subway tracks at Manhattan's Herald Square station on Sunday afternoon, police said.
According to NYPD officials, the 72-year-old victim was standing on the northbound F train platform at 34th Street Herald Square Station around 12:15 p.m. when an unknown creep approached him from behind. It is said that he was thrown onto the railroad tracks.
The rider was helped back to the platform by other straphangers and taken to Bellevue Hospital with minor injuries, but his dastardly assailant escaped and remains at large.
Subway ramming attacks remain a safety concern for many New Yorkers who ride the railroad tracks.
Last week, a 74-year-old man in the Bronx was pushed onto railroad tracks by a 28-year-old freak and tried to claim he didn't do it, but a police officer cuffed him.
The 43-year-old shoving victim also told the Post that the crazed woman who pushed him onto railroad tracks in another unprovoked attack in Brooklyn earlier this month had been “arguing” with herself before the attack.
In October, another transit enthusiast was charged with attempted murder after allegedly pushing an 82-year-old woman onto the tracks and injuring her at the 7th Station in Flushing, Queens.
City officials note that crime is down in the Big Apple, but acknowledge that a sense of fear still exists among many New Yorkers who ride the subway.
