Police: On-duty MTA conductor attacked while trying to break up fight

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From Amanda Woods

An on-duty MTA conductor was punched in the face last month while trying to break up a fight in a Queens subway station – and the attacker is still at large, cops said.

The 36-year-old victim intervened when he saw a fight breaking out on the platform of the Parsons Boulevard/Archer Avenue-Jamaica Center subway station around 11:50 p.m. on May 20, authorities said.

The perpetrator then beat him and fled, police said.

The traffic worker suffered a minor injury as a result of the blow, police said.

The still-fugitive attacker, seen in a photo released by the New York Police Department late Tuesday, is described as a dark-skinned man, approximately 35 to 40 years old, weighing 82 kg and of slim build.

He was last seen wearing a blue hoodie, gray jeans and a black du-rag.

The attack came weeks after a crazed passenger tackled an on-duty MTA driver to the ground on a train stopped at the end of a subway line in Queens, police said.

The 38-year-old worker was clearing passengers from the M train at the Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue station on the evening of May 5 so that it could be taken to a storage facility when his tormentors suddenly attacked him, police said.

The employee was violently thrown to the floor of the car and had to be taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center with back pain, police said.

In late April, a 44-year-old woman who worked as a cleaner for the MTA was sprayed with an unknown substance on a train in the Bronx when she woke up a sleeping woman, police reported.