Stand clear: Sicko slugs NYC subway conductor over closing doors

NYC subway conductor Jean Joseph stuck helium caput retired the bid model to cheque that each passengers were safely aboard — erstwhile a deranged alien punched him successful the face, breaking his teeth.

After the random onslaught connected the W bid past week astatine the Ditmars Boulevard Station successful Astoria, helium has not been backmost to work.

“He was mumbling thing astir maine closing the doors,” said Joseph of his attacker, who wore a achromatic undershirt.

The MTA employee, 33, who is primitively from Haiti and astir to go a caller dad, speculates the antheral was aggravated helium missed the train.

He is inactive traumatized. “I had a nightmare: I was sticking my caput retired the window, but it wasn’t a idiosyncratic who deed me. It was a train,” helium told The Post.

When the unhinged assailant heard the conductor’s telephone for assistance travel implicit the supervisor’s radio, helium took disconnected down the stairs and retired of the station, Joseph said.

“I deliberation it’s messed up,” Joseph said of the May 2 attack, noting different bid conductor helium works with was besides precocious struck. “We’re fundamentally trying to bash our occupation and thing similar that conscionable happens.”

His fiancee instantly thought of a March 2024 incidental successful Brooklyn, successful which a conductor was sliced successful the cervix portion sticking his caput retired of the bid car window.

“My babe parent keeps reasoning astir that different conductor who got slashed successful the neck,” helium said. “She’s besides acrophobic for me.”

Joseph was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital for a chopped articulator and 2 cracked teeth. He isn’t definite erstwhile he’ll instrumentality to work.

“I’m acrophobic to instrumentality my caput retired the model now,” helium said. “It’s portion of our procedure. Sometimes people’s apparel oregon container handles mightiness get stuck successful the doors truthful we observe for their safety.”

Police released a wanted poster of the attacker, but determination person been nary arrests.

Assault successful the city’s subway strategy roseate 13%, to 208 truthful acold this twelvemonth from 184 successful the aforesaid timeframe successful 2024, according to constabulary data. Major transit transgression — including execution — remains down 7.8% from 709 to 654, cops said.

There person been 11 assaults connected MTA employees truthful acold this year, 2 less than the 13 astatine this constituent successful 2024, according to NYPD data. Assault connected MTA employees deed a precocious of 22 successful 2022, the information showed.