NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police released new surveillance video Thursday of a man they’re searching for after a subway shove in Lower Manhattan last weekend left a man hospitalized.
The NYPD is looking to question the man seen on an escalator at the Fulton Street station shortly before a 62-year-old man was pushed in front of an oncoming train.
The victim was waiting on an A-line platform when he was shoved from behind around 11:20 a.m. Sunday, according to police.
The victim landed on the tracks as a southbound A train was entering the station.
The victim rushed to a space under the platform to avoid being hit by the train, however part of the train still struck him, police said.
He suffered a laceration to his left leg and pain and bruising to his body, but he managed to climb back onto the platform.
EMS transported him to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
Police said his attacker fled the area on foot. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Members of the City Council were set to gather Thursday to demand that the MTA immediately begin a pilot program to install platform barriers in stations to prevent people from being shoved onto the tracks.
The call for platform barriers comes after another subway rider, 40-year-old Michelle Go, was fatally shoved onto the tracks at the Times Square subway station on Jan. 15. A 61-year-old homeless man has been charged with murder in her death.
MTA chairman Janno Lieber has said that the way the subway system was built makes barrier installation a challenge, if not impossible in some cases, but he told the MTA board on Wednesday that subway shoving has to be addressed.
“We need our customers to feel safe,” Lieber said. “It’s essential for the city’s economic recovery, the return to normalcy after COVID that we all crave. But it’s also the minimum—the minimum—that we owe the public in the greatest city in the world.”
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