Asian Man Who Was Stomped and Kicked in Harlem Is in Critical Condition

A Chinese man collecting bottles and cans was kicked in the head, part of a wave of assaults on Asian New Yorkers.

A 61-year-old Asian man who was assaulted in East Harlem on Friday night while pushing a grocery cart full of bottles and cans remained in critical but stable condition on Monday morning, the police said, another victim in a rising wave of attacks against Asians in New York City. The man — identified by local media outlets and elected officials as Yao Pan Ma, a Chinese immigrant — was in a coma and on a ventilator after the attack, his wife, Baozhen Chen, told The New York Daily News. Mr. Ma was at the corner of 125th Street and Third Avenue around 8 p.m. on Friday when a man dressed in black approached and hit him in the back, the police said. He collapsed onto the sidewalk.