MTA employee whacked in head with glass bottle within the Bronx

An MTA conductor was randomly whacked within the head with a glass bottle by a stranger within the Bronx Wednesday — an hour after Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced she is going to flood the subway system with Nationwide Guardsmen to thwart against the law surge within the metropolis’s underground.  

The 38-year-old conductor was in her cabin on a southbound No. 4 practice on the 170 Road and Jerome Avenue station in Mt. Eden when the unhinged man out of the blue smashed a bottle over her head simply earlier than midday, in accordance with cops.

She reported the assault on the subsequent station and was taken to NYC Well being + Hospitals/Lincoln in steady situation, the NYPD mentioned. 

Her attacker fled the station after the incident, in accordance with the NYPD. He was nonetheless on the free later Wednesday.

The assault got here days after 59-year-old MTA employee Alton Scott was slashed within the neck at a Brooklyn subway station whereas additionally working inside his cabin. 

Scott, a 24-year transit veteran, acquired 34 stitches and required 9 sutures to shut the stomach-churning wound, transit officers mentioned. 

Scott vowed to by no means return on the practice after the random slashing. 

“I don’t see myself going again on that practice, that’s not for me anymore,” the spooked conductor informed The Put up. 

“If I am going again to work, I might not go on the practice,” Scott mentioned. “I’m too traumatized to try this. If I am going again, they’ll have to seek out one thing else for me to do.”

Wednesday’s assault unfolded after the governor promised to deploy 1,000 New York Nationwide Guardsmen, state police, and MTA cops to hold out bag checks in Massive Apple subway stations. 

“These brazen heinous assaults on our subway system won’t be tolerated,” Hochul mentioned whereas saying her plan.

“Nobody heading to their job or to go to household or go to a health care provider appointment ought to fear that the individual sitting subsequent to them possesses a lethal weapon,” Hochul continued.

“They shouldn’t fear about whether or not somebody’s going to brandish a knife or gun,” she mentioned. “That’s what we’re going to do with these checkpoints.”