Woman Bashed With Pipe At Herald Square Subway Station: NYPD

MIDTOWN, NY — No good deed goes unpunished. A stranger bashed a woman in the head with a metal pipe when she tried to stop a fight between two subway straphangers, police said.

The 28-year-old woman was on the north-bound platform for the N, Q and R lines at the 34th Street-Herald Square station at 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, when the woman tried to break up an argument between two feuding commuters, authorities said.

Instead, one of the men directed his rage at the woman and smashed her in the head with a metal pipe, causing several cuts, police said.

The bloodied woman was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

Police say the suspect is roughly five-foot-eight and is in his 50s. In surveillance video, he is seen waving the pipe and pushing a cart around the subway platform.

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

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