Random ‘sucker-punch’ assaults leave frightened NYC residents on edge

By Dean Balsamini April 17, 2021

Deacon Frederick L. Kurr III was attacked at the Kingsbridge Road Station subway station. An Upper West Side man is cold-cocked in Chelsea.  An unhinged stranger throws a roundhouse at a woman outside a subway station on the Upper West Side. A Catholic deacon and another man are pummeled in separate smackdowns in the Bronx.

It’s up for debate whether this spate of disturbing incidents is a return of the so-called knockout game, the sick spree of assaults that terrorized New Yorkers a few years ago, but it’s a still a gut-punch to frightened residents already on edge.

One poster to the Upper West Side Together Facebook group put members on high alert two weeks ago after two friends walking past the subway station exit on Central Park West and 87th Street encountered a man dressed in black coming out of the subway.

He tried “tried to sucker punch” the girl, whose boyfriend then chased him off. “My friend was screaming, ran to a building on CPW (Central Park West) where doorman called police,” the poster explained. An Upper West Side man responded, “This is happening all over. I was sucker punched by a disturbed man in Chelsea” — and left with two black eyes...........To Read More.....

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