On Wednesday, an MTA conductor was randomly hit in the head with a glass bottle by an unknown man in the Bronx. It came an hour after Gov. Cathy Hochul announced the National Guard would be deployed to the subways to stem a spike in crime in the city’s underground.
The 38-year-old conductor was in the cabin of the southbound No. 4 train at the 170th Street and Jerome Avenue station in Mount Eden when he was suddenly struck over the head with a bottle just before noon, police said.
She reported the assault at the next stop and was taken to New York City Health Hospital/Lincoln in stable condition, the NYPD said.
According to the NYPD, her attacker fled the police station after the incident. He was still at large on Wednesday.
The assault occurred just days after 59-year-old MTA worker Alton Scott was slashed in the neck while on duty in his cabin at a Brooklyn subway station.
Scott, a 24-year transit veteran, needed 34 stitches and nine stitches to close the stomach-wrenching wound, transit officials said.
After being randomly slashed, Scott vowed never to ride a train again.
“I don’t want to go back on that train. It’s not for me anymore,” the frightened conductor told the Post.
“If I were to go back to work, I wouldn’t want to take the train,” Scott said. “I’m too traumatized to do that. If I go back, they’ll have to find me something else to do.”
Wednesday’s assault came after the governor promised to send 1,000 New York National Guard, state police and MTA troopers to conduct bag checks at subway stations in the Big Apple.
“Such brazen and brutal attacks on our country’s subways will not be tolerated,” Hochul said while announcing the plan.
“People who go to work, visit family, or go to the hospital should not have to worry that the person sitting next to them has a weapon,” Hochul continued.
“You don’t have to worry about someone brandishing a knife or a gun,” she says. “That’s what we do at these checkpoints.”
