A 51-year-old straphanger is on life help after a one other man punched him right down to the bottom throughout a dispute contained in the Occasions Sq. subway station Wednesday, cops and sources mentioned.
The sufferer obtained 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 Road-Occasions Sq. station, authorities mentioned.
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 mentioned. It was not clear if the lads knew one another.
Responding cops discovered the sufferer with trauma to his face and rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, the place he was listed in essential situation – on life help within the intensive care unit, cops and sources mentioned.
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 free by the afternoon.
It remained unclear what sparked the burst of violence.
