Straphanger Attacks Man On Jay Street-MetroTech Platform, Police Say

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A man was hospitalized for head injuries after a furious straphanger violently shoved him to the ground in a Downtown Brooklyn subway station Friday, according to police.

The two men first began to argue on a northbound F train heading toward the Jay Street-MetroTech station around 5 p.m. on May 19, police said.

The two men disembarked at the Jay Street station and the attacker pushed his 37-year-old victim with enough force to knock his head into a metal beam on the platform, police said.

The attacker escaped and his victim was rushed to Methodist Hospital with a head injury, police said.

The suspect — whom police describe as a man in his late twenties, standing about five-foot-ten and weighing approximately 195 pounds — had not been caught as of Monday morning, said police.

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