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Anti-Gay Subway Attack Leaves Woman With Cracked Spine, Cops Say
Cops are looking for a brute who used an anti-gay slur and pushed a woman to the floor of an E train in Queens.

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Noah Manskar covers all things New York City for Patch, writing citywide stories about crime, politics, the subways and much else. He came to Patch from Blank Slate Media, where he covered community news and local politics in Nassau County, Long Island. He has won six awards from the New York Press Association and the Press Club of Long Island, including a first-place honor for a story about allegations of sexual abuse against the former president of a prestigious Catholic high school.
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Cops are looking for a brute who used an anti-gay slur and pushed a woman to the floor of an E train in Queens.

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