An on-duty MTA conductor was socked in the face as he tried to break up a fight at a Queens subway station last month – and the slugger is still on the loose, cops said.
The 36-year-old victim stepped in when he saw the fracas erupt on the platform of the Parsons Boulevard/Archer Avenue-Jamaica Center station around 11:50 p.m. May 20, authorities said.
Then the menace punched him and ran off, police said.
The blow left the transit worker with a minor injury, cops said.
The still-at-large assailant, seen in a photo released by the NYPD late Tuesday, is described as a man with a dark complexion, about 35 to 40 years old, 180 pounds, with a slim build.
He was last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, gray jeans and a black du-rag.
The attack came weeks after an unhinged straphanger tackled an on-duty MTA operator to the ground on board a stopped train at the end of a Queens subway line, cops said.
The 38-year-old worker was clearing the M-line train of passengers at the Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue station so it could be taken to a lay-up location the night of May 5 when the menace suddenly jumped him, police said.
The employee was violently knocked to the floor of the car and had to be rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center with back pain, cops said.
In late April, a 44-year-old woman working as an MTA cleaner was sprayed with an unknown substance on board a Bronx train when she roused a sleeping woman, cops said.
