71-Year-Old Pushed Out Of Wash Heights Subway Elevator: Police

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A woman is being sought after pushing a 71-year-old woman out of a subway station elevator in Washington Heights, police said.

Around 6:50 p.m. Sunday, the unidentified woman and the victim began yelling at each other in the 168th Street subway station elevator, according to police.

The attacker then pushed the senior citizen out of the elevator and onto the ground, police said.

The impact of the fall broke the victim's arm, and she was hospitalized in stable condition at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, according to police.

NYPD released a picture Tuesday of the woman wanted in connection with the incident.

Anyone with information about the woman's identity is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).