Police say a woman pushed two others off of a train platform early on Monday on the Lower East Side.
Ebony Butts, 42, was charged with several counts of reckless endangerment and assault, according to an NYPD spokesperson. Police say she pushed two 28-year-old women into the tracks of a northbound F train at the Delancey Street-Essex Street subway station just before 2:45 a.m. There were no incoming trains at the time, and a bystander helped the women back up, police said.
Butts had no connection to the women, according to the police spokesperson. Attorney information for Butts was not immediately available.
The two women were taken to Bellevue Hospital with minor injuries and were both in stable condition, police said.
The NYPD reported that more people were assaulted in the city’s subway system last year than any other calendar year since at least 1996, Gothamist previously reported. There were about 1.5 assaults per day in trains and stations last year, according to NYPD data.
