Crime & Safety
Whole Foods Shopper Gropes Teen In UWS Subway: NYPD
A man shoved a 19-year-old woman and grabbed her breast in the Columbus Circle subway station, the NYPD said.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A man shoved and groped a 19-year-old woman walking out of an Upper West Side train station, police said Friday.
The woman was climbing stairs at 59th Street and Columbus Circle train station about 1:25 p.m. on May 15, when a man bumped into her, police said.
An argument broke out, which led the man to push the woman, police said.
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He then grabbed the 19-year-old's breast, continued into the station, and boarded the C train, police said.
NYPD described the man as 5 feet, 8 inches, 190 pounds, with blue eyes.
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He was shopping in the Columbus Circle Whole Foods, before the push, police said.
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).
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