A man swinging a kick scooter attacked two on-duty MTA employees during a clash at a Bronx subway station early Tuesday, police said.
A 46-year-old train conductor for an out-of-service No. 5 train was clearing out all the subway cars at the Eastchester-Dyre Ave. station — the line’s last stop in the Bronx — around 12:50 a.m. when a straphanger apparently upset about that smacked the conductor in the face with his kick scooter, officials said.
When a second MTA employee, 37, saw the attack and ran over to help his co-worker, the scooter swinger struck him in the hands before jumping off the platform and onto the tracks.
He was last seen running south on the tracks toward the Baychester Ave. station.
No arrests have been made.
Both MTA employees suffered minor injuries and were taken to Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital to be treated.
The attacker is believed to be between 18 and 22 years old, about 5-foot-5 and was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt.
Crime in the subway system has dropped by 18% for the first three months of the year, helped by a massive influx of police officers to patrol trains and subway platforms.
This was the first time in the last seven years that there have been no murders in the subway in the first three months of the year, cops said. By the end of March, cops had also investigated 465 felony crimes in the subway system this year — a drop of 103 crimes from the 568 that occurred in the first three months of 2024.
