Asian Man Hit In Head With Hammer At 14th Street Station: NYPD

West Village NY

09 March, 2022

10:07 AM

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WEST VILLAGE, NY — An attacker wielding a hammer smacked an Asian man in the head in a 14th Street station Tuesday night, police told Patch. The two straphangers began to fight after bumping into each other in the Sixth Avenue station about 9:15 p.m., according to police and a New York Post report. The argument escalated into violence when the attacker pulled out a hammer and struck the 29-year-old man in the head, police said. The hammer-swinger ran out of the 1, 2 and 3 train station, and the 29-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Police added that it was not immediately known if the attack was provoked by anti-Asian bias, but the NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force has been notified. The attack occurred as New York City faces what has been dubbed a "Second Pandemic" in anti-Asian hate crime. Editor's Note: This story was updated about 5 p.m. Wednesday to include photos and a video supplied by the NYPD.