MTA Worker Choked Teen At Park Slope Subway Station, Report Says

PARK SLOPE, NY — A 13-year-old Brooklyn student accused an MTA worker of pushing and choking her inside a Park Slope subway station when she was trying to get home from school, the New York Daily News reported.

The token booth clerk, Rida Elzeck, was arrested and charged with assault for the March 15 incident when he allegedly attacked the student at the Fourth Avenue R train station, the News reported.

The teen, dressed in her school uniform, wanted to take the G train home to Bed-Stuy from the Summit Academy Charter School in Red Hook but lost her school-issued MetroCard, according to the News. The worker at the Smith-Ninth Street station let her through without her card, but signal problems delayed G train service.

She then walked to the Fourth Avenue station with a friend and entered through the emergency gate with other people when Elzeck, 60, started cursing her out, the News reported.

Elzeck eventually pushed the teen and put his arm around her neck, dragging her off the platform while she struggled to breathe, according to the paper. Police eventually arrested Elzeck at the station.

The girl's family plans to sue Elzeck over the attack and sources told the Daily News he's been suspended from his job and could be fired over the arrest.

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