Police Seek 2 Train Subway Masturbator

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for the masturbating straphanger who “manipulated his private parts” in front of a 61-year-old woman on the 2 train.

The suspect boarded a Manhattan-bound train at the Beverly Road station around 11:50 p.m. on Jan. 9 and tried to chat with the woman sitting across from him, police said.

When she refused to make conversation, the man began to touch himself under a leather jacket draped across his lap, according to police.

The woman snapped a photo and before the man jumped off the train at the 233rd Street station in The Bronx, said police.

Police describe the suspect as a man in his 50s, standing about six feet tall, last seen wearing a hat and a black sweater.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.

Photo courtesy of the NYPD