NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A straphanger shoved an MTA conductor onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station Tuesday morning — less than 12 hours after an attacker punched a bus operator in the face in Manhattan, the MTA said.
The on-duty platform conductor was on the Manhattan-bound A and C train platform at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station in Brooklyn just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday when a male rider pushed him onto the tracks, the agency said.
The conductor was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries to his neck, back and head, according to the agency.
Hours earlier, around 11:05 p.m. on Monday, a bus operator was on an out-of-service bus parked at East 8th Street and 4th Avenue in Manhattan when a male pedestrian approached and held the front doors open, the MTA said.
A female pedestrian then ran onto the bus and punched the operator in the face several times, the agency said.
The operator was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries to the face, neck and back, according to the agency.
Officials are also investigating an incident that took place around 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday in Queens, the MTA said.
An in-service Q56 bus was parked at the bus stop at Jamaica Avenue and 132nd Street when a male pedestrian walked up to the driver's side window, "verbally assaulted" the bus driver and punched the window, shattering the glass, the agency said.
No one had been arrested in connection with any of the incidents as of Tuesday afternoon. Investigations are ongoing.
"Attacking a public servant who is working hard to keep New York moving during this time of uncertainty is heartbreaking, outrageous, and frankly, unfathomable," New York City Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg said in a statement.
"These reckless displays of violence are part of a troubling pattern we are seeing across our system. We have sounded the alarm on this disturbing trend to the NYPD a number of times," she added. "More needs to be done."
