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Published March 4, 2024, 1:08 am ET
A 64-year-old straphanger was kicked onto a roadbed at Penn Station on Sunday in the first of two subway attacks on the Big Apple's beleaguered transit system, police said.
The man was kicked in the back by a male stranger on the northbound 34th Street-Eighth Avenue train platform on the A, C, E lines around 5 p.m., causing him to fall onto the tracks, authorities said.
Other straphangers helped him get back to safety, and he was then taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital, where he was treated for knee and back pain, police said.
A 64-year-old man fell onto the subway tracks after being kicked in the back on the 34th Street-Eighth Avenue northbound A,C,E train platform about 5 p.m., authorities said. David McGlynn
The victim was on the phone when the suspect approached him and asked him a question, law enforcement sources said. The victim did not understand the attacker, who then carried out his attack, sources said.
In another attack around 8 p.m. Sunday, a 19-year-old woman was punched in the face by an attacker after the two got into an argument on the mezzanine of the 168th Street subway station in Washington Heights, cops said.
An 18-year-old man who was with the 19-year-old also had his phone stolen after he dropped it while trying to break up the argument, police said.
The young woman was taken to NY Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center in stable condition.
While the investigation is ongoing, no arrests have been made in any case.
The two subway incidents are the latest trend in increasing violence that has gripped the city's transportation system in recent weeks, including several shootings and stabbings.
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