A heartless mugger pummeled a 73-year-old woman before snatching her handbag steps on a Brooklyn street this week, authorities said.
The elderly victim was walking on Nevins Street near Fulton Street in Boerum Hill when a woman suddenly punched her multiple times in the face and body – causing her “substantial pain” – around 9:30 p.m. Friday, cops said.
The stranger then grabbed the victim’s pocketbook and ran off, police said.
The shocking assault took place just steps from the Nevins Street Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5 subway station.
The septuagenarian was left with cuts and severe pain to her face, authorities said.
The suspected assailant – who is still on the loose – was described as a woman in her 20s, with a dark complexion, standing about 5-foot-8, cops said.
She was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black sweatpants and yellow sneakers.
In a similar incident earlier this month, a 70-year-old man was repeatedly punched and robbed of $200 during a random attack as he got off a N train at West 32nd Street and Broadway, police said.
The robber then senselessly kicked the victim’s cellphone onto the train tracks, according to cops.
No arrests have been made in that case.
A total of 351 robberies were reported last week in the Big Apple, up from 323 reported during the same period last year, the latest NYPD statistics show.
But robberies are down year-to-date, with 13,452 reported as of Sunday, compared to 14,168 at that point in 2022, the data shows.