Crime & Safety
Herald Square Plagued By Butt-Grabbers, Another Sicko Saturday: Police
Saturday's groping pervert is the third reported instance at the busy subway station since May, according to officials.

MIDTOWN, NY — Herald Square straphangers have seen more than enough perverted sickos grabbing at them in recent months, with at least three reported gropings since May, according to authorities.
On Saturday, a man grabbed at a woman inside the busy subway station, according to police.
The 29-year-old woman was entering the station through a turnstile at about 12:15 p.m. when a stranger grabbed her buttocks, officials said.
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Police reported that the man was last seen fleeing towards the 33rd Street PATH station and described him as about five foot seven inches tall, with facial hair and wearing a black shirt, black pants, white shoes and a dark blue book bag with a red and white front pocket.
Officials released surveillance stills of the man described.
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Earlier in July, officials said they were still on the hunt for a sicko who groped a 55-year-old woman twice during the late afternoon inside the station back in May.
And on Wednesday, a man smacked a 28-year-old woman's behind as she exited a W train in the middle of the day.
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