A Muslim woman who works for New York City's transit system was attacked at Grand Central Terminal, according to CBS News. The 45-year-old woman was wearing a head-covering when she was attacked, and a witness told CBS that the woman's attacker called her a "terrorist."
CBS further reports that the suspected attacker followed the woman as she exited a train before pushing her down the stairs, calling her a "terrorist," and saying that the woman should not be working in New York City. The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was off-duty but wearing her uniform when she was assaulted. A witness to the crime intervened, but police are still looking for the assailant, according to CBS.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo released a statement about the attack on Sunday, contextualizing the terrible event in a series of bigoted crimes "targeting the MTA" since the election of Donald Trump, who has said he intends to make Muslim Americans report themselves to a registry.
"The incident follows a wave of bias events targeting the MTA since the Presidential election. On Saturday, a No. 1 Train was found to have been vandalized, with multiple swastikas graffitied on its interior. Last week, KKK fliers and business cards were distributed at the Patchogue and Hampton Bay Stations on the Long Island Rail Road," the statement reads.
Regarding the assault on the Muslim MTA employee, Cuomo's statement says:
The statement also says that the woman who was attacked had both her ankle and knee injured and that she was taken to NYU Langone for medical treatment.