Early AM Subway Shove Injures Elderly Man In Midtown: Police

MIDTOWN, NY — An elderly man was shoved onto the subway tracks as he waited for a train inside a Midtown subway station early Wednesday morning, according to police.

The scary shove took place inside the 47th-50th st-Rockefeller Center station at around 5:45 a.m., officials told Patch.

An 85-year-old man was standing at the downtown-bound platform when a stranger approached and abruptly shoved the straphanger to the tracks, a NYPD spokesperson said.

Fellow commuters quickly alerted police and the man was rescued from the tracks by responding officers, officials said.

The man suffered injuries to his knees and was rushed by first responders to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, police said.

Police said the injured man described his assailant as a man in his 30's, but offered no other description of a possible suspect.

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