told ABC 7<\/a> of the simple request.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd he stepped aside. The door opened. I was pushed so hard I flew out of the train,\u201d he recalled of the vicious attack that broke several of his bones.<\/p>\n
Dr. C.G. Wang needed a hip replacement after he was thrown off a subway in Midtown. ABC7<\/p>\n
\u201cI landed on my hip first. Then my shoulder, next. Then my head, next. Boom, boom, boom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wang, who had even been to a hospital before in his life, was taken by EMS to NYU Langone Tisch Hospital in stable condition, cops confirmed as they appealed for help finding the cruel pusher.<\/p>\n
Wang was so badly injured he als needed a hip replacement, he said.<\/p>\n
The suspect, who fled the scene in an unknown direction, appeared in a black jacket and a black baseball cap in a surveillance photo published by the NYPD on Wednesday, three weeks after the attack. He appeared to be roughly 40 to 50 years old and of medium build.<\/p>\n
Police released a photo of the shoving suspect on Wednesday, three weeks after the attack. DCPI<\/p>\n
\u201cWho does this?\u201d the professor\u2019s son, Juin Wang, asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, who, who, who would shove a 90-year-old, frail, visually impaired man?\u201d <\/p>\n
Wang recalled the train being fairly empty when he asked the man to move around 1 p.m. on Oct. 6 so he could get off at the exact door he knew would open in front of the escalator after making the trip thousands of times before.<\/p>\n
Despite his age, Wang was still living independently and had been regularly commuting to an office to conduct research and write before the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The professor was shoved around 1 p.m. on Oct. 6 at the Lexington Avenue-53rd Street station. UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n
An unidentified individual pushed a 90-year-old astrophysics professor aboard a southbound F train at the Lexington Avenue and East 53rd Street subway station on Oct. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n
Juin Wang said the family\u2019s primary focus is on his father\u2019s recovery but they want \u201cto be sure this doesn\u2019t happen to anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 90-year-old astrophysicist professor was violently shoved off a New York City subway by a callous stranger \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,75,57,360,9,56,63,65,64,1686,58],"class_list":["post-380802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subway-shoves","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}