NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- An on-duty subway conductor was punched in the face and a man was slashed in the neck Thursday evening in the latest attacks in the transit system, police said.
The 33-year-old MTA conductor was operating a northbound 1 train at the 86th Street station on the Upper West Side around 7 p.m. when she stuck her head out of a train car window to clear the platform.
That’s when someone came up and punched her in the face, police said.
She was taken to an area hospital to be treated.
Around the same time, a 35-year-old man was attacked at the Franklin Avenue–Medgar Evers College station in Crown Heights.
Police said a man wielding a sharp object slashed the victim in the neck in a staircase of the station.
The victim was taken in stable condition to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Both suspects fled after the attacks, police said. No arrests have been reported.
The assaults follow a rash of subway violence last weekend and into this week, including multiple stabbings and slashings. An MTA conductor was also pelted with rocks and multiple people were beaten with metal pipes in separate incidents.
Just last week, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a subway safety plan that went into effect on Monday. It increases homeless outreach as well as NYPD enforcement of subway rules.
Adams told 1010 WINS on Friday that the safety plan is going well given it’s less than a week old.
“You know we had to do, day one, we had to send the right message and signal that our system is no longer a place where any and everything goes and we're doing that every day,” the mayor said. “We have had over 125 interactions daily with those who are either in a place of being homeless, dealing with mental health illnesses, or just need assistance, and many have taken us up on those offers.”
“Others we had to correct the condition,” the mayor added, “but there's a real energy out there of rebuilding the trust that's needed so that we can remove the encampments on our subway system and send the right message that this is a system that must be safe, reliable and is a place where people can commute to and from their business or education.”
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