Groper Meets Match As Victim Chases Him From Midtown Subway: NYPD

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify a creep who groped a woman on a staircase inside the Grand Central Terminal subway station, police said.

A 26-year-old woman was walking down the stairs inside the West 42nd Street station on the afternoon of Aug. 31 when an unknown man grabbed her butt, police said. The woman chased her assaulter down and physically confronted him, forcing the perv to flee station, police said.

The woman was not physically injured, police said.

The groper is described as a man in his 20s or 30s standing 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 an weighing about 225 pounds, police said. The man was last seen wearing eyeglasses, a green shirt, black shorts and black sneakers.

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

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