Crime & Safety

L Train Conductor Attacked by Feisty Female Duo in Brownsville/East NY, Cops Say

One of the young women spit on the train conductor, while the other bashed him in the face with a soda bottle, according to the NYPD.

BROWNSVILLE and EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN — Police reminded the public on Monday that they still haven't caught the two young woman they believe are responsible for a low-brow attack on an L train conductor at the Sutter Avenue station some five weeks back.

In the wee hours of Tuesday, Sept. 13, around 1:15 a.m., one of the women pictured below "spit in the face" of a 31-year-old male L train conductor, who was on duty at the time, according to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).

Her alleged accomplice, also pictured below, then"hit him in the face with a plastic bottle filled with soda," police said.

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The L train conductor was later treated for his wounds at Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, according to the NYPD.

Cops described both suspects as Hispanic females between 18 and 21 years old, standing around 5-feet-3-inches or 5-feet-4-inches tall. One of them is around 130 pounds, with red hair, police said, and the other 140 pounds with black hair.

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Have you spotted them around town? Tipsters are urged to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). For Spanish, call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Tips can also be submitted online or by texting 274637, then entering TIP577. All calls are confidential.

Pictured at top: The Sutter Avenue station. Image via Google Maps

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