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MTA Worker's Teeth Knocked Out By Wash Heights Straphanger: NYPD

The pipe-wielding straphanger fought with the worker when a C train broke down at the 168th Street station, police said.

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An MTA train operator, 37, took a metal pipe to the face when he tried to get an outraged rider to leave a northbound C that broke down at the 168th Street station about 11:45 p.m. Sunday, police said.
An MTA train operator, 37, took a metal pipe to the face when he tried to get an outraged rider to leave a northbound C that broke down at the 168th Street station about 11:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. (NYPD)

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — An MTA worker's teeth were knocked out by an angry straphanger with a metal pipe in a Washington Heights subway station, according to police.

The MTA train operator, 37, took a metal pipe to the face when he tried to get the outraged rider to leave a northbound C that broke down at the 168th Street station about 11:45 p.m. Sunday, police said.

The two men fought, then the straphanger pulled the blade and the pipe, hit the train operator in the face and ran from the station, police said.

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The worker lost several teeth and suffered a mouth wound, police said.

Medics rushed him to Columbia University Irving Medical Center in stable condition, said police.

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Anyone with information about the attack is asked to contact the NYPD.

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