Midtown Diner Worker Attacked Trying To Break Up Brawl: Police

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Police are trying to identify a group of people who attacked an elderly employee of a Midtown Manhattan diner while he was trying to break up a fight inside the business.

A group of three men and two women got into a physical fight with another customer inside the Applejack Diner on Broadway and West 55th Street early Sunday morning, police said. When a 71-year-old diner employee stepped in to break up the fight, the group turned its rage on him, police said.

The diner worker was hit in the face with a liquor bottle during the assault and suffered a laceration to his face and a fractured nose, police said. The man was taken to Mt. Sinai West Hospital in serious, but stable, condition.

The group fled the diner after the assault and headed up Broadway on foot, police said. The NYPD released photos of the five suspects (seen above) this week. All the suspects are described as being in their 20s or 30s.

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

Photos by NYPD