A Pennsylvania man accused of randomly shoving an 85-year-old straphanger onto Midtown subway tracks was busted hours after the unprovoked attack this week, the NYPD said.
Brittan Jones, 30, didn’t say a word when he pushed the unsuspecting senior onto the southbound tracks at the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Jones, of York, Pa., was arrested just after 8 p.m. and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, authorities said.
He also said nothing when detectives walked him out of Midtown’s Transit District 1 headquarters Thursday morning, wearing all black, aside from the white T-shirt visible under his long-sleeved Nike shirt.
Jones’ arraignment was pending in Manhattan Criminal Court.
His elderly victim, who was pulled from the tracks by responding EMS workers, was hospitalized with a cut on his left knee, police said.
Luckily, no trains were entering the station at the time, authorities said.
Footage released by the NYPD hours before the arrest shows the suspect — walking with a gray hooded sweatshirt over his head — passing through the turnstile to leave the station.
The random attack comes just weeks after a stranger shoved an unsuspecting 28-year-old man onto the subway tracks at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall on Nov. 1, authorities said at the time.
He was hospitalized in stable condition, cops said.
In mid-October, a 30-year-old woman was pushed into a departing E train at the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station, leaving her critically injured.
