A 51-year-old straphanger is on life help after a stranger punched him all the way down to the bottom throughout a dispute contained in the Occasions Sq. subway station Wednesday, cops and sources stated.
The sufferer received right into a dust-up with one other man round 6:45 p.m. on the mezzanine for the N, Q and R trains on the forty second Avenue-Occasions Sq. station, authorities stated.
The feud turned violent when the menace slugged the sufferer within the face, inflicting him to fall and hit his head on the bottom, police sources stated.
Responding cops discovered the sufferer with trauma to his face and rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, the place he was listed in crucial situation – on life help within the intensive care unit, cops and sources stated.
The attacker, described as a person with a darkish complexion, sporting a grey polo brief and blue denims and carrying a black backpack, was nonetheless on the unfastened by the afternoon.
It remained unclear what sparked the burst of violence.
