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Man touched himself while staring at female passengers aboard 7 train: police

Photo of suspect released by NYPD

Oct. 4, 2017 By Nathaly Pesantez

A man touched his genitals over his clothing while staring at female passengers on a Main Street bound 7-train, according to police.

The public lewdness incident happened on Aug. 31 at around 2:10 p.m., aboard a 7 train at the Queensboro Plaza station in Long Island City. According to police, the man stared at a 29-year-old female victim and other female passengers as he touched his genitals over this clothing. The man then exited the train at the 52nd Street station.

The man is described as light skinned, between 35 to 40 years old, and with a height between 5’9” to 6’1”, according to police. He weighs between 180 to 200 pounds, and was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, black tights, black and white sneakers, and a green backpack.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.

email the author: news@queenspost.com

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Bruce

Where is my other post about this not being a crime? Why was it sensored? No curses, just an observation and opinion. Shame.

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Kramden's Delicious Marshall

Likely because it wasn’t a good comment.

Glad Sunnyside Post is making some effort to disregard bad comments.

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Sal from Sunnyside

my comment of “timely reporting” wasn’t approved, but Al from Sunnyside’s “it might be el loco” gets approved?

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Kramden's Delicious Marshall

These articles are terrible. They don’t lead to anything other than a bunch of comments making a joke about sexual harassment. Which for women, is not fun.

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Me

I am sure MTA’a operational cameras at station that is used to catch turnstile hoppers will be able to catch this guy too..

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henry

Maybe he had an itch. Or are we going to go after and video tape what might be natural human biological reactions? When that occurs you might have to adjust it. You forget to zipper yourself up and you may get video taped and wanted by the police.

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