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A young woman was raped on a desolate Queens subway platform early yesterday near two horrified transit workers who heard her cries but could not stop the savage attack.
"She screamed like hell," said a conductor who saw the 21-year-old woman being dragged into a stairwell at the 21st St. station in Hunter's Point as his G train pulled away from the platform.
"I swear if I could do it all over again, I would have stopped the train ... and stopped the guy," the conductor, Harmodio Cruz, 36, of South Brunswick, N.J., told the Daily News. "But my partner was too far into the tunnel."
"I felt helpless; I felt bad," Cruz wept. "I felt guilty."
A token-booth clerk also heard the woman "tussling" with the predator and called for help, according to the clerk's supervisor and police sources. MTA rules prohibit clerks from leaving their booths.
"The clerk has no way of knowing if he's being set up," a transit source said. "He is supposed to notify the control center."
The nightmare attack took place just after 3 a.m., when the southbound G train pulled out of the deserted station. In the corner of his eye, Cruz said, he saw a man dragging a woman in a green dress toward a stairway and heard her cries.
"I was gonna stop the train but it was too far in the tunnel," he said. "Right away, we called it in."
"Those seconds that went by of me calling it in was maybe the time she got raped," the conductor said. "I feel bad about that."
Although there are security cameras in the station, they are pointed toward the tracks and did not catch the sex attack, a police source said.
The conductor told The News he wished he could have done more.
"If I could get off the train and stop the guy, maybe she wouldn't get raped," Cruz said.
"I got a little daughter myself," he said. "Jesus, somebody do that to my daughter, they would be castrated. For an individual to do something to a woman like that, he's less than a man."
The victim, who had been going to her boyfriend's home, was treated at Elmhurst Hospital Center and released, sources said. She was able to give cops a description of her attacker, and police were searching for a black man in his 20s who stands about 5-feet-8 and has short brown hair.
The attacker was wearing a black or gray windbreaker with a zipper in front, khaki cargo pants and a military-style camouflage hat, police said.
Hours after the rape, women who use the station said they often feel unsafe on the platform, especially at night.
Allison Sparks, 25, of the East Village said she always waits near the token booth on the mezzanine until she hears the rumble of the train.
Monica Tretowicz, 30, of Flushing never gets off at the station at night - and even feels nervous when the subway stops there. "I'm scared when the doors open at night," she said. "It's empty. It looks terrible."
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/317031p-271173c.html
DAMN!
"She screamed like hell," said a conductor who saw the 21-year-old woman being dragged into a stairwell at the 21st St. station in Hunter's Point as his G train pulled away from the platform.
"I swear if I could do it all over again, I would have stopped the train ... and stopped the guy," the conductor, Harmodio Cruz, 36, of South Brunswick, N.J., told the Daily News. "But my partner was too far into the tunnel."
"I felt helpless; I felt bad," Cruz wept. "I felt guilty."
A token-booth clerk also heard the woman "tussling" with the predator and called for help, according to the clerk's supervisor and police sources. MTA rules prohibit clerks from leaving their booths.
"The clerk has no way of knowing if he's being set up," a transit source said. "He is supposed to notify the control center."
The nightmare attack took place just after 3 a.m., when the southbound G train pulled out of the deserted station. In the corner of his eye, Cruz said, he saw a man dragging a woman in a green dress toward a stairway and heard her cries.
"I was gonna stop the train but it was too far in the tunnel," he said. "Right away, we called it in."
"Those seconds that went by of me calling it in was maybe the time she got raped," the conductor said. "I feel bad about that."
Although there are security cameras in the station, they are pointed toward the tracks and did not catch the sex attack, a police source said.
The conductor told The News he wished he could have done more.
"If I could get off the train and stop the guy, maybe she wouldn't get raped," Cruz said.
"I got a little daughter myself," he said. "Jesus, somebody do that to my daughter, they would be castrated. For an individual to do something to a woman like that, he's less than a man."
The victim, who had been going to her boyfriend's home, was treated at Elmhurst Hospital Center and released, sources said. She was able to give cops a description of her attacker, and police were searching for a black man in his 20s who stands about 5-feet-8 and has short brown hair.
The attacker was wearing a black or gray windbreaker with a zipper in front, khaki cargo pants and a military-style camouflage hat, police said.
Hours after the rape, women who use the station said they often feel unsafe on the platform, especially at night.
Allison Sparks, 25, of the East Village said she always waits near the token booth on the mezzanine until she hears the rumble of the train.
Monica Tretowicz, 30, of Flushing never gets off at the station at night - and even feels nervous when the subway stops there. "I'm scared when the doors open at night," she said. "It's empty. It looks terrible."
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/317031p-271173c.html
DAMN!