An unhinged man yelled an anti-gay slur and threatened to stab a 24-year-old woman in a Chinatown subway station over the weekend, then punched her in the face, cops said Sunday.
The attack happened around 7:45 p.m. Saturday at the Broadway and Canal Street N/Q/R/W station in Manhattan as the woman stood outside the turnstile looking at her phone, cops said.
“You don’t belong here!” the man, described as in his 50s, yelled. “You d—s need to get out of here!”
The hater slugged the victim, then punched her again in the right eye with a closed fist when she attempted to record him, police said.
“I’ll stab you,” he seethed, while brandishing a sharp object that resembled a hair pick, cops said.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force was investigating, a Police Department spokesman said.
-Additional reporting by Larry Celona
