Crime & Safety
Asian Man Hit In Head With Hammer At 14th Street Station: NYPD
A man was hit in the head with a hammer after a fight broke out Tuesday night on the 1, 2, 3 train platform at 14th Street, police said.
WEST VILLAGE, NY — An attacker wielding a hammer smacked an Asian man in the head in a 14th Street station Tuesday night, police told Patch.
The two straphangers began to fight after bumping into each other in the Sixth Avenue station about 9:15 p.m., according to police and a New York Post report.
The argument escalated into violence when the attacker pulled out a hammer and struck the 29-year-old man in the head, police said.
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The hammer-swinger ran out of the 1, 2 and 3 train station, and the 29-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Police added that it was not immediately known if the attack was provoked by anti-Asian bias, but the NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force has been notified.
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The attack occurred as New York City faces what has been dubbed a "Second Pandemic" in anti-Asian hate crime.
Editor's Note: This story was updated about 5 p.m. Wednesday to include photos and a video supplied by the NYPD.
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