Woman Shoved To The Pavement By Stranger On UES Street: NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A woman was brutally shoved to the ground on an Upper East Side street by a stranger on Sunday evening, according to police.

About 5:30 p.m., the woman was walking on Third Avenue near the busy corner of East 73rd Street in Lenox Hill when a man approached her from behind, police said.

Suddenly, the man violently shoved her from the back, sending her to the pavement, officials told Patch.

She suffered multiple lacerations on the right side of her face from her impact with the street and was rushed to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, an NYPD spokesperson said.

The shover ran south on Third Avenue, police said, and no description was available as of Monday morning.

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