A 63-year-old Asian man told police he was punched in the face by a stranger who spit at him and spewed ethnic hatred on a subway in Midtown, police sources said.
Won Yi, of Brooklyn, was on an F subway on Tuesday about 8:30 a.m. when the stranger got on at the Jay Street station and sat next to him.
During the commute, the attacker turned to Yi and said, “Why don’t you go back to your own country?”
When the train pulled in to the West 42nd Street and Sixth Ave station, the perpetrator got up, spit on Yi and began punching him numerous times in his face, neck and shoulder. The attack left Yi with bleeding on the inside of his mouth and swelling and bruising to his left cheek and jaw.
Yi, who refused medical attention, described his attacker as a Hispanic man in his mid-30s.