A stranger repeatedly punched a 30-year-old man in the face in an unprovoked attack as he waited for a train in Brooklyn last week, cops said.
The maniac randomly pummeled the victim on the southbound No. 2 train platform of the Beverly Road station in Flatbush around 12:50 p.m. Friday, police said.
The victim was hospitalized for pain and swelling, but was listed in stable condition.
He did not know his attacker, described by authorities as a man who stood around 5-foot-3.
The alleged brute fled the scene and had not been caught as of Monday morning.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said last week that 2026 started with an upward bump in subway crime – as cold weather policies prevented officers from booting rule-breaking passengers from the subways – but the trend didn’t last.
“We ended the quarter down, actually 1% in subway crime,” she added. “So we had a very good month of March. We basically saw crime fall in all categories in transit, and again, once the weather normalizes we can go back to our normal ejection strategy in transit.”
She said the 150 officers added to the subway system at the end of February helped contribute to the dip in crime.