Female worker beaten with metal pipe while cleaning NYC subway platform

1/04/22@ 6:45 A.M. A 46-year-old female victim, a custodial cleaner , was cleaning the subway platform when an unknown individual wielding a metal pipe approached her, and unprovoked, the individual struck the victim in the face with the pipe.
1/04/22@ 6:45 A.M. A 46-year-old female victim, a custodial cleaner , was cleaning the subway platform when an unknown individual wielding a metal pipe approached her, and unprovoked, the individual struck the victim in the face with the pipe.

NEW YORK – A 46-year-old woman who works for the city as a custodial cleaner was cleaning up at the subway platform on Chambers Street when she was assaulted by a man with a metal pipe.

The New York City Police Department said the assault took place on the E train platform last Friday at around 6:45 am.

As the woman was performing her duties, an unidentified male approached her with a pipe and struck her in the face with it.

The man fled the scene aboard the subway train, but not before a photo was taken of him banging on the window of the subway door as it left.