Police say the man depicted above rubbed a woman’s butt on the C train last Friday around 8:20 a.m. The victim, “a 49-year old female was aboard a downtown “C” train when the individual boarded at the 8 Avenue and 59 Street subway station. The individual did continuously rub the victim’s buttocks from 59 Street to 50 Street and exited the train at the 23rd Street stop.”
If you see him, you should contact police.
The individual is a male, black , approximately 55-years of age, 6’2″, 215 lbs., partially bald medium complexion, last seen wearing a black coat and an orange polo shirt.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782)
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
I don’t know how women ride the subway. Too many pervs, not enough mace.
Just awful. These creepers are everywhere.
I don’t get it. This dude “did continuously rub the victim’s buttocks”.
Why didn’t she scream or move away?
How did this guy “continuously” do what he did?
In a world where women get their throats cut for simply ignoring the disgusting advances of some men, It’s not out of the realm of possibility for this sort of thing to happen
I had the same question. I can’t imagine not reacting to something like this. Possibly the woman was frozen in fear. Obviously the person who took the photo knew something was up, and I’d be interested to know if he/she said or did anything (other than take the photo). Very unfortunate situation all around.
One of my friends traveled to Japan and told me that the women there have separate sections on the platforms and trains. I found this old NY Times article that’s mind boggling. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/17/world/on-tokyo-s-packed-trains-molesters-are-brazen.html
Women sometimes fear violent reactions in response to any negative reaction on their own part, especially when the offender is physically larger than the victim. Who is to say that a man who gropes a woman does not also think it would be OK to hit a woman who rejects him? Add in the complication of a crowded subway train where a victim feels cornered, and this is when you get silence in response to groping such as this.
I was on the train with that man on that morning, standing right beside him with my two young boys. I think he got onto the downtown C train at 86th or 81st. He was drunk and physically imbalanced, his pants were open, and he kept stumbling toward me and my sons and I would put myself between so that he would fall onto my boys. Fortunately, we got off at 59th, right before the groping began. I wish I had more information but I will certainly recognize him if I see him again.
*would NOT fall onto my boys* I meant to write
I haven’t been back in the subway since I started using Via.