A 73-year-old woman was punched in the face in an unprovoked attack on a Midtown subway platform early Monday, cops said.
The senior was waiting for a northbound R train at the 57th Street–Seventh Avenue station around 2:30 a.m. when a stranger approached and slugged her without warning, police said.
The suspect, believed to be a man in his 20s, bolted after the random attack, authorities said.
The septugenarian was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with swelling to her left eye, and has since been treated and released.
No arrests had been made by later Monday morning.
The attack comes less than a week after a 70-year-old man was pummeled and robbed during a random attack as he got off an N train at West 32nd Street and Broadway, police said.
Earlier this month, a 55-year-old woman was bashed over the head on board a D train at the 47-50 Streets-Rockefeller Center station, cops said.
The suspect in that attack, Michael Howell, 32, allegedly went on a random violent rampage – attacking two people with a glass bottle at a Midtown Whole Foods – before he came after the woman on the train.