NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Transit workers are on edge after three MTA employees were attacked on the job in less than two hours this week.
The three transit workers were attacked in two separate incidents in Harlem on Friday, according to police.
The first attack happened just before 1 p.m. at the subway station at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.
A 31-year-old train conductor was punched in the face as he looked out a window of an arriving train, police said.
The conductor suffered a swollen face after the unprovoked attack.
Less than two hours later around 2:30 p.m., two MTA bus drivers were left with cuts to their face after a driver threw a glass bottle at the driver's side window of an M5 bus near West 136th Street and Broadway.
The force of the bottle shattered the glass, cutting the 34-year-old and 36-year-old drivers, police said.
It's believed road rage may have played a part in that attack.
Robert Diehl of NYC Transit Safety and Security called the attacks "reprehensible" in a statement.
"The pattern of unprovoked attacks on Transit workers is reprehensible to the MTA, our employees and all concerned New Yorkers. We are fully cooperating with NYPD investigators and expect the perpetrators, when arrested, to be subjected to maximum prosecution and sentencing," Diehl wrote in the statement.
Police are searching for those responsible for the attacks.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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