A 74-year-old man was shoved onto the subway tracks in an unprovoked attack on the Upper East Side early Tuesday – leaving him with a fractured spine, cops said.
The victim was standing on the downtown No. 6 train platform at the 68th Street-Hunter College station around 12:20 a.m. when a man suddenly pushed him without saying a word, police said.
The straphanger landed on his back and neck on the roadbed, and was helped back up onto the platform by an on-duty MTA employee, cops said.
The elderly man suffered multiple fractures – including to his ribs, pelvis and spine – as well as cuts on his fingers, according to the NYPD.
He was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
His attacker, who was wearing a dirty white shirt, bolted from the station and escaped onto the street, cops said.
The two men did not interact at all prior to the random shove, police said.
In an unrelated attack about a half-hour later, a 19-year-old man repeatedly slashed his 24-year-old girlfriend during a fight on board a Manhattan-bound No. 3 train at Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, cops said.
The woman was slashed in the forehead, stomach and hand during the heated clash, police said.
She was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition.
Her boyfriend was arrested. Charges against him were pending, cops said.
