Man Gropes Woman On Midtown Subway, Police Say

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify a man who groped a woman on a train traveling through Midtown Manhattan, police said.

The unknown man approached a 29-year-old woman on an uptown 4 train on the night of March 6 and grabbed her buttocks as the train was pulling into Grand Central Terminal, police said. The man fled the train at the station, but not before the victim could snap a photo of her assaulter.

Police describe the suspect as a man in his 30s standing about 6-feet-tall and weighing around 200 pounds. The NYPD released a photo of the man (seen above) that was shot by his victim.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).