A man armed with a pipe tried to attack a 68-year-old MTA cleaner at a Brooklyn subway station early Thursday morning, police said.
The attack comes just a few weeks after a pipe attack on an MTA bus in the Bronx, officials said.
The cleaner was sprucing up the Bergen St. station in Boerum Hill around 12:15 a.m. when he saw a man swinging a pipe on the platform, cops said.
The man smashed a station call box with the pipe, cops said. When the cleaner confronted him, the suspect said, “Why are you following me?” then swung the pipe at him twice, missing both times, cops said.
The cleaner then grabbed the suspect and the two men began brawling, both falling to the platform before the suspect got up and ran off.
EMS rushed the cleaner to NYU Langone Health-Cobble Hill, where he was treated for pains throughout his body and released.
The man with the pipe — who was described as Black and wearing a black T-shirt and black clothing — remained at large Thursday.
On May 10, an unidentified man in a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans randomly attacked a man with a pipe on a Bx35 bus in Morrisania.
The commuter was sitting quietly on the bus around 2:30 p.m. when he began yelling at a 31-year-old man seated near him, before a few moments later, hitting the man in the head with a pipe, cops said.
The victim, who suffered a cut to the head, was transported by EMS to Lincoln Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The assailant took off. Cops released an image of the bus attacker in the hopes someone recognizes him.
It was not immediately clear if the two incidents were connected, police said.
Anyone with information on either case is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
