Woman Attacked In Hate Crime Onboard West Village Subway Train: NYPD

WEST VILLAGE, NY — An Asian woman riding on the subway with her family was attacked Thursday in the West Village, according to police and social media videos.

Officials are describing the attack as a hate crime.

At about 8 p.m., a 51-year-old woman onboard a downtown F train at the West Fourth Street subway station got involved in an argument with a trio of woman, police said.

Viral social media video show a trio sitting across from a family inside a subway car and yelling at them from their seats.

“You lucky your two kids is here because I would have smashed you,” the sought woman shouts at the 51-year-old, according to the video footage.

Officials offered no other details about how the dispute began, but they said it ended with one of the three strangers grabbing the 51-year-old's hair and pulling her to the ground after yelling an unspecified "anti-ethnic" remark.

The hateful hair-puller then started to punch the 51-year-old repeatedly in her head, delivering bruises and swelling, police said.

Fellow subway riders leapt to action and confronted the trio, who then fled the train, according to video footage and officials.

Police said they have released an image of a woman they are seeking in connection to the attack and that the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.

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).