A woman in her late 30s was randomly assaulted this weekend while out with her dog for a walk.
It happened on Saturday at about 7:30 p.m. on Broadway between 91st and 92nd streets.
The man who hit her had been walking in the same direction, about ten feet in front of her. Out of nowhere, she says he turned around and lunged towards her before striking her in the head, causing her to drop her phone. He didn’t attempt to steal anything from her.
The woman told ILTUWS that ten or fifteen passersby stopped to ask if she was okay, and one of those good samaritans called the police.
The cops arrived quickly and the woman rode with them to help locate the man who’d just assaulted her. It took about ten minutes to find him on Amsterdam Ave. near 97th Street, where police arrested him.
The woman described the assailant as a white man in his 40s or 50s with puffy brown hair.
Shortly after publishing this article, a woman contacted us saying “This man also touched me inappropriately yesterday and stared me down before walking into oncoming traffic at 71st and Broadway. This was around 6:00pm Saturday.”
On Monday, we were contacted by a man who told us he too had a run-in with the suspect. “This man also shoved my shoulder while I was walking down the sidewalk on 80th and Amsterdam in broad daylight [on Saturday afternoon].”
We saw a guy with a very similar t shirt (looked very similar) swing at a woman randomly on Saturday afternoon. We were on 100th and Columbus around 2-3pm
How do i report a tip regarding this
Call the police, obviously. He’s been arrested.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/20th-precinct.page
The same guy attacked me in McDonalds at Broadway & 104th St for no reason. He should not be on the street. I wonder how many other victims are out there.
Call the police and make sure they know. The more people he’s charged with assaulting, the less chance he’ll be allowed back out.
Just this afternoon, my wife and I were walking down 95th between B’way and West End Ave. apartment hunting. Coming up the sidewalk was an Asian woman and her daughter, about 11. A strange man, who let’s say did not look like he had good intentions, had been standing there and then started walking up the street next to the mother and daughter saying things to them. We were about 20′ away watching this and my wife decided to intervene. She yelled out to the Asian woman “Mary Lee!” “Is that you Mary” as if they were old acquaintances. We hustled back to the couple like we knew them and the man slithered away. No idea whether this was an anti-Asian thing, but the guy was definitely encroaching on their space.
The pair were traumatized. The mother could hardly catch her breath and the girl was teary and obviously terrified.They had come uptown to a musical instrument repair shop. My wife told the girl that “while there are scary people out there, there’s always people who will have your back” and gave the girl a hug.
Kudos for stepping up! Well done!
Nice! Your wife, probably on strike, was implementing her training in improv! Good job!
I’m pretty sure I saw that guy by Central Park in the 60’s last night. He was talking loudly to himself.
It was not the same person. He is still in custody. The assailant is closer to 30 years old & not in his 40s or 50s.
And people thought the 1970s was dangerous.
Nowhere close to what’s happening now.
Using your “feelings” on which to base your statements is not cool.
Stats show you’re wrong- today on the UWS is much safer than it was at least going back to the ‘60’s.
Singling out the 20th and 24th precincts, which cover the Upper West Side, it’s clear that in the 32 years spanning the statistics (1990-2022), crime has – for the most part – fallen dramatically in the seven felony categories: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft.
Felonies, as opposed to misdemeanors, are the most serious crimes and typically lead to prison time of at least a year.
One of the biggest drops came in the number of robberies — thefts involving actual or the threat of force. In 1990, 2,171 were recorded in the UWS precincts; last year that number was 261.
Burglaries, theft of property, saw a similar decline, from 2,665 in 1990 to 217 in 2021.
A third category, grand larceny – stealing something worth more than $1,000 – declined from 3,502 in 1990 to 1,219.
There were 21 murders reported in 1990, which fell to a single murder case in 2021, while rape cases fell from 47 to 19 in the same period.
NY’ers mostly “feel” less safe since the pandemic and felony rates are indeed ticking up vs rates in the last couple of years but we are nowhere close to the crime rates of the ‘70’s or the “Crack” years.
Be positive and be safe and check first.
Troll elsewhere. Clown.
I really appreciate the stats. Thank you. People are saying a lot of negative things lately and it’s definitely more scary than 2019 but the real data is helpful.
So I guess that if we feel that the number of people being raped or murdered or punched or robbed is less than it was 50+ years ago, then we should feel relatively ok about it and not feel that what we are experiencing and reading about represents a lowering of the quality of life of all of us, even if for those who are the victims of the perpetrators it is a life changing catastrophe?
Data watchers, while you’re at it, please report the stats comparing the data for homelessness and mentally ill homeless on the UWS these last 50 years. Wish there were stats for random crime which I think has to do with mental illness. Consider that average people like me are changing their routines to avoid crime now. Rarely go out for a late dinner, prefer meeting friends for lunch. Therefore avoid riding the subway after 9 pm. Of course, these crimes were committed during broad daylight… I’m positive, things can only get better.
I think this publication would be doing a terrific service if it continued to report on this matter — how long it takes to reach a conclusion and what that conclusion is. Too often, we hear about the crime and the victim and sometimes the alleged perpetrator, but hardly ever about what ultimately happens with the criminal case (if any). Given the huge number of reader comments pro and con about no bail being required under state law, and the decision of the District Attorney’s Office to prosecute or not, and to agree to a plea bargain to a lesser charge and to no jail time, it would be helpful to find out what actually happens. Then, we can make our views known to those we have elected or choose to elect in their place. What do you think?
I went to school with the perp. PS75 he’s in his late 20s early 30s.