Would-Be Rapist Drags Woman Down Upper West Side Street: Police

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An attacker sexually assaulted a woman walking on the Upper West Side early Wednesday morning, police said.

A man riding an electric scooter attacked the woman from behind on West 69th Street near Broadway about 1 a.m., police said.

The man dragged her to a secluded area, attempted to rape her then fled on his electric scooter, police said.

Video shows the man running out of a building with the woman behind him.

The woman, 33, suffered scratches and cuts throughout her body, police said.

Emergency services treated her on the scene.

Police released a photo Wednesday of the man wanted in connection to the attack.

It is the second woman sexually attacked on the Upper West Side in the last week, as a woman was assaulted by an e-bike rider on July 16 near Central Park West and West 82nd Street, police said.

The NYPD linked the e-bike rider Wednesday to two other recent sexual assaults. Police did not say, though, that the attack that happened Wednesday morning was connected.

Anyone with information in regard to any of the incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).