A stranger randomly shoved a 69-year-old man off a Midtown train onto the platform this week – one of several recent attacks reported on the rails, police said.
The senior was boarding a northbound No. 6 train at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue around 12:15 p.m. Monday when the menace pushed him out of the car, unprovoked, authorities said.
The victim – who fell onto the platform – suffered a fractured wrist and was treated at Lincoln Medical Center, cops said.
The suspected attacker, who is seen in photos released by the NYPD late Wednesday, is described as a man with a medium complexion, about 6-feet tall and 200 pounds, police said.
In an unrelated assault around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 10, a 36-year-old man was riding a southbound R train approaching the Queens Plaza station when a male stranger approached and started speaking with him, cops said.
The conversation went south when the man stabbed the straphanger in the left leg with a “sharp object,” police said.
The attacker – described as a man with a dark complexion, around 20 years old – was last seen wearing a dark-colored vest jacket, red hooded sweatshirt, dark-colored pants and white-and-dark colored sneakers, cops said.
He is also pictured in images released by the department late Wednesday.
The victim went to Staten Island University Hospital North, where he was listed in stable condition.
The NYPD separately announced an arrest in two unrelated slashings in the city’s underground.
A 27-year-old man with multiple prior arrests was nabbed Thursday morning in connection to the unprovoked stabbing of a 42-year-old man on board a southbound D train at the 59 Street-Columbus Circle subway station, cops said.
The assailant – whose name has not yet been released pending charges – knifed the victim in the right shoulder just before 6 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.
The victim suffered minor injuries and was taken to Woodhull Medical Center with minor injuries, cops said.
Police say the same suspect was responsible for the random stabbing of a 19-year-old man in the arm, on board a northbound No. 2 train at the East 174th Street station in the Bronx less than two hours later.
The victim of that attack, which happened around 7:30 a.m., went to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
“Quickly after both these incidents occurred, we learned and we realized that they were linked and that they were connected and that the same individual would be responsible for both,” NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper told reporters. “How we came upon that was through video. And we often talk about the video in the subway system, how much there is and how valuable it is.”