Bumbling Bully Targets MTA Workers in Shocking NYC Subway Attack: Police

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From Amanda Woods

An on-duty MTA employee was knocked to the ground by unlatched webbing aboard a stopped train at the end of a subway line in Queens late Sunday, according to police.

The 38-year-old worker was clearing the M Line train of passengers at the Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue station just before midnight so it could be taken to a resting place when the threat suddenly ambushed him, police said with.

The employee was violently thrown to the ground and was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center with back pain, police said.

The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, fled the train and was still at large late Monday.

The MTA referred all questions to the NYPD.

The attack came weeks after a 44-year-old woman working as an MTA cleaner was sprayed with an unknown substance aboard a train in the Bronx, cops said.

The victim of that attack was cleaning the train car at the Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street station around 3:40 a.m. on April 22 when he woke up a sleeping woman and asked her to leave – prompting the straphanger to do so To dump spray, the police said.

The suspected sprayer started and the worker was taken to the hospital with pain, redness and swelling on her face, police said at the time.