An attacker in an “X-Men” T-shirt randomly bashed an elderly woman with a metal object as she walked in the East Village last week, cops said.
The 68-year-old victim was strolling on East 14th Street near First Avenue, steps from the Stuy Town apartments, around 6:15 p.m. Sept. 22 when the Manhattan menace crept up behind her, police said.
He hit her in the back with an “unknown metal object” before taking off, police said.
Surveillance footage released by the NYPD late Monday shows the suspect ambling down the sidewalk at one point wearing his gray “X-Men” T-shirt, black pants and gray sneakers and carrying a backpack.
The victim refused medical attention, and the suspect was still at large Tuesday, cops said.
The assault was one of several unprovoked attacks across the city in recent weeks.
An unhinged attacker randomly slashed a 62-year-old man with a boxcutter as he crossed a Bronx street in broad daylight Sunday, cops and sources said.
The victim was waiting for the light to change on Hugh Grant Circle near Metropolitan Avenue in Parkchester around 2:20 p.m. when Joyner Javon, 33 — who has a history of being emotionally disturbed — suddenly cut the man’s right ear for no reason, authorities and sources said.
Javon was arrested and charged with assault, cops said.
In Park Slope, Brooklyn, last week, a mumbling maniac also randomly stabbed a 32-year-old man in the chest on Seventh Avenue near Lincoln Place, cops said.
Earlier in September, a violent brute randomly punched a 74-year-old woman in the face on a southbound A train as it approached the 104th and Liberty Avenue station in Ozone Park, Queens, according to cops.
Weeks earlier, a maniac slashed a teen boy on a Bronx subway — as terrifying surveillance footage captured the criminal stalking the platform while holding a giant blade after the random attack.
The madman cut the 16-year-old straphanger in the back of the head onboard a southbound No. 2 train as it rumbled toward the Prospect Avenue station in Melrose, according to police.