MTA worker assaulted with metal pipe – NBC New York

NEW YORK – In another brutal unprovoked attack on New York City’s transportation system, a subway janitor was hit in the face with a metal pipe while she was simply trying to do her job.

Just before 7 am on November 4th, Leonor Fama was working at the station Street of the Chambers in lower Manhattan.

The 46-year-old woman, who said she took a job as a subway train cleaner more than two years ago when COVID started ravaging the city, was cleaning a train AND when a man appeared out of nowhere and hit her in the face with the tube.

Fama suffered bruises and swelling of her face and was taken to hospital for her injuries. She is recovering and some of the swelling has subsided, but she says she is still traumatized by what happened underground.

Tears rolled down her face as she remembered the attack. Her fame has said that she is afraid to go back to work, but she added that she has no other choice to provide for her family. Overall, she said she was grateful to be alive and she hopes the audience can help locate her abuser.

Other MTA workers chased after the man, who was last seen fleeing on a 2 train southbound.

The MTA condemned the attack.

“Attacks on transportation workers trying to help New Yorkers are unacceptable,” MTA spokesman Ray Raimundi said in a statement. “We are assisting NYPD investigators and are confident that this perpetrator will be held accountable.”

It is only the latest in a series of occasional and violent attacks on the transit system in recent months.

Last month Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled a new plan to curb violence on the subway, direct or otherwise, in an effort to quell public concerns as the struggling MTA seeks to continue a slow rebound. in pandemic trafficking.

Anyone with information should contact the police or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (English) or for Spanish at 1-888-57-PISTA.