A subway musician was clobbered with a bottle in an unprovoked attack while an MTA worker and good Samaritan were slugged by an unhinged homeless man in a surge of transit violence Tuesday and Wednesday cops said.
The homeless man clocked the female MTA worker in the face after she woke him up on a Lower Manhattan train platform Wednesday morning – and then he walloped a bystander who tried to keep the peace, cops said.
The transit employee, 58, had spotted a 25-year-old vagrant snoozing on a bench on the southbound Nos. 4 and 5 train platform at Wall Street around 6 a.m., police said.
A 34-year-old man happened to walk by when he witnessed the attack and tried to stop the suspect, cops said.
But then the assailant turned on the bystander – who also took a blow to the face, police said.
The attacker was taken into custody with charges pending, authorities said.
Both the MTA worker and a passerby were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition with minor injuries.
The attack came about 12 hours after a female attacker used a metal bottle to bludgeon a subway musician playing inside the 34th Street-Herald Square hub during the Tuesday evening rush, cops said.
The 29-year-old man – who was playing the cello, according to WPIX – was randomly attacked around 5:45 p.m. by a woman who struck him in the head with a bottle, causing a cut, police said.
The attacker fled the scene and had not been caught by Wednesday morning.
The NYPD released a photo of the suspect, who they say has a light complexion and a slim build, standing around 5-foot-3.
She was last seen wearing a brown fur coat, black winter hat, burgundy scarf and carrying a multi-colored cross-body bag.