Add The New York Post on Google A crazed stranger shoved an elderly man onto the train tracks at a major Midtown subway station early Wednesday, police said.
The 72-year-old victim was waiting on the northbound F and D train platform at the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station around 4 a.m. when the attacker approached him from behind and pushed him without saying a word, according to cops.
The gutsy senior then climbed back onto the platform by himself and was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he was listed as stable.
The 72-year-old victim was shoved onto the northbound tracks at the Rockefeller Center station just before 4 a.m. Wednesday, police said. Alex – stock.adobe.com The shover, identified as Francisco Garcia, 40, was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and reckless endangerment.
Garcia didn’t appear to have a criminal record in the Big Apple.
The attack happened just weeks after another unhinged straphanger pushed a 27-year-old man onto the E train roadbed at the West Fourth Street station in Greenwich Village during an argument over who stared at whom first, authorities said.
The victim climbed back onto the platform of the major Midtown station on his own and was hospitalized in stable condition. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post The victim – who was also hospitalized in stable condition – was Aaron Kareem Watson, a US Army soldier who was on leave trying to attend his father’s funeral.
That suspect fled on a southbound B train and has not yet been caught.
