Woman Punched In Face During Subway Fight on Upper East Side: Police

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Police are trying to identify a woman wanted for assault after a verbal dispute at an Upper East Side train station turned violent.

On Sunday, Dec. 11 around 6:50 p.m. a woman in her 20s punched a 43-year-old woman in the face, knocking the victim's glasses off her face, police said. The two women were engaged in a verbal dispute on board a southbound a 6 train which turned violent when the train reached the 68th Street-Hunter college station, police told Patch.

The 43-year-old woman suffered a cut to the bridge of her nose, police said.

The suspect (pictured above) is described as a woman in her 20s.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

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