Straphanger Slashed And Robbed Of Cell Phone On The A Train, Police Say

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for the man who slashed a woman in the face and stole her cell phone on the A train Wednesday evening.

The 51-year-old woman was attacked on a northbound A train at the Nostrand Avenue station near Atlantic Avenue around 5:45 p.m., police said.

The slasher — whom police describe as a six-foot-tall, 300 pound man wearing a red hooded jacket — struck her in the face, grabbed her cell phone, and fled the station, according to police.

The woman treated at Kings County Hospital for a gash that stretched down the left side of her face, said police.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Image via the NYPD.