MTA worker smashed in head with glass bottle — an hour after Hochul vowed National Guardsmen for NYC subways
NY Post
An MTA conductor was randomly whacked in the head with a glass bottle by a stranger in the Bronx Wednesday — an hour after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she will flood the subway system with National Guardsmen to thwart a crime surge in the city’s underground.
The 38-year-old conductor was in her cabin on a southbound No. 4 train at the 170 Street and Jerome Avenue station in Mt. Eden when the unhinged man suddenly smashed a bottle over her head just before noon, according to cops.
She reported the attack at the next station and was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in stable condition, the NYPD said.
Her attacker fled the station after the incident, according to the NYPD. He was still on the loose later Wednesday.
The assault came days after 59-year-old MTA worker Alton Scott was slashed in the neck at a Brooklyn subway station while also working inside his cabin.
Scott, a 24-year transit veteran, received 34 stitches and required nine sutures to close the stomach-churning wound, transit officials said.
