Mayor Eric Adams can't even look after his own! Subway attack victim named as NYC Department of Health scientist Dr Nina Rothschild, 58: Brother says she remains critically-ill in hospital
Dr NinaRothschild, 58, a scientist with New York City's Department of Health has been identified as the woman kicked down the stairs at a Queens subway station
Dr Rothschild was bashed in the head up to 13 times with a hammer
She is currently in critical condition in hospital and underwent surgery on Friday
A surveillance camera captured the moment the suspect, walking with a cane, assaulted the woman and struck in an attempt to steal her purse
The attack comes days after NYC Mayor Eric Adams vowed to crackdown on subway crime and deployed 1,000 additional officers to the transit system
Subway stabbings and slashings have spiked 29 percent in the last last year, with 182 incidents compared to 141 in 2020
So far in 2022, stabbings have been up 35 percent from the same time last year
The woman who was kicked down the stairs at a New York City subway station and bashed in the head with a hammer has been identified as 58-year-old Dr Nina Rothschild, a scientist with the city's Department of Health.
Sickening surveillance video shows a robber kicking her down the steps and bashing her in the head repeatedly with a hammer, fracturing her skull days after Mayor Eric Adams vowed to crack down on violence in the transit system.
Rothschild's brother, Gerson, is also a scientist in Upper Manhattan at Columbia University and managed to speak with his sister on Friday as she recovers from surgery. She remains critically-ill.
'From what she told me on the phone she was just walking down the steps to get into the subway on the way home from work when she was attacked by somebody from behind,' he said to ABC7.
'She apparently remembers all of that and she kept screaming, 'stop, stop' but the person either wouldn't stop, I don't remember exactly what she said, but ultimately grabbed the bag with the cellphone and the personal papers and apparently some jewelry and ran off with it.'
Dr Rothschild has enjoyed a long and illustrious career working in public health since graduating from the Mailman School at Columbia University, and has also worked in HIV prevention, as well as in addressing mental health issues.
Video footage shot outside the station in Queens Plaza, in Long Island City, shows the robber, walking with a cane, approach Rothschild as she carefully walked down the stairs to the subway platform on Thursday at 11:22 pm.
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