High Line Assault

Manhattan

By Geoffrey Croft

A  good Samaritan was punched in the face yesterday afternoon on the High Line,  NYC Park Advocates has learned.  

A group of teens were up on the elevated park near 28th Street at 4:20pm.  when a park goer asked one of the teens if they needed help.

That’s when one of them turned around and suddenly hit him in the face.

The victim, a 40-year-old caucasian male,  suffered a bloody nose and cut on his hand.

The teens fled.

The assailant is described as a black male approximately 16-years-old and wearing a grey hoodie.

NYPD responded to the scene.