An attacker whacked a Manhattan straphanger with a metal pipe because he told him not to shoot up on a rush-hour train, cops said.
The 31-year-old victim was on a northbound J train around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday when he spotted a man pulling out a syringe needle, cops said.
When the victim told the man not to do that onboard, the suspect struck him over the head with a metal pipe, authorities said.
The suspect got off the train at the Delancey/Essex Street station on the Lower East Side, cops said.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, conscious and alert, police said.
The assailant, who wore
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