A man was arrested on Sunday in connection with the savage hammer attack on a woman during a subway robbery in Queens.
Nina Rothschild, 57, was pummeled in the head Thursday by a hammer-wielding suspect in a brutal robbery as she walked into a Long Island City, Queens, subway station.Rothschild, who lives nearby, was entering the Queens Plaza station when the suspect came up on her from behind.Rothschild suffered a fractured skull and lacerations to the head and is in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell.
"From what she told me on the phone she was just walking down the steps to get into the subway on the way home from work when she was attacked by somebody from behind," he said."She apparently remembers all of that and she kept screaming, 'stop, stop' but the person either wouldn't stop, I don't remember exactly what she said, but ultimately grabbed the bag with the cellphone and the personal papers and apparently some jewelry and ran off with it.
He said while the city is attempting to provide services to those living in the subway,"we need to deal with those who are on our streets right now that are dangerous, that are violent and have a total disregard." Police believe the suspect, who walks with a cane, is homeless. Adams said the city's new subway safety program, which looks to both help and remove the homeless from the system, has been engaging about 125 individuals per day.
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