Crime & Safety
Mugger Attacks 75-Year-Old Inside Bed-Stuy Subway, Cops Say
An elderly man was rushed to the hospital after he was thrown against the wall of the Nostrand Avenue station Monday morning, police said.
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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A 75-year-old man was thrown up against a subway wall and robbed of the cash in his pocket, police said.
The elderly straphanger was attacked by a man in his 20s inside the Nostrand Avenue A and C train station on Fulton Street just before 4 a.m. Monday, according to police.
The man began shouting at the 75-year-old, then pushed him into the wall, stole $20 and ran out of the station, police said.
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Emergency responders took the elderly man to Kings County Hospital to be treated for his injuries, said police.
Police are now looking for the mugger, last seen wearing dark clothes and a white hooded shirt.
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Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.
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