A woman was struck in the face with a metal folding chair in an unprovoked attack on a Manhattan subway platform, police said Wednesday.
The 46-year-old told cops she was waiting for the northbound 2/3 train around 7 p.m. Tuesday in the 14th Street station when the stranger attacked her with the chair for no reason.
Police canvassed the area and nabbed Wilmar Castillo, 27, outside on 14th Street a short time later, cops said. He was charged with assault and reckless endangerment and was awaiting arraignment Wednesday afternoon.
The woman suffered a cut on her mouth but refused medical attention.
Castillo has a record of 10 arrests, including six prior assault busts, police said.
His last arrest before the subway incident was on Feb. 1 at a commercial building in Queens, cops said.
A 33-year-old was working at the building on 35th Street in Astoria when he saw on video surveillance that Castillo was on the fifth floor, “entering several rooms and looking through desk drawers,” around 5:30 p.m., a criminal complaint reads.
The worker confronted Castillo to ask him what he was doing there, but Castillo allegedly “charged towards the complainant and knocked the complainant to the ground,” according to the document. He then allegedly punched the worker in the head several times, causing his face to swell.
Castillo ran out of the building but was met outside by Police Officer Sean McEneaney of the 114th Precinct, according to the complaint. As the officer tried to arrest him, Castillo “flailed his arms, twisted and tensed his body,” the court document states.
He was charged with assault, resisting arrest and harassment. It wasn’t clear what happened to him after he was arraigned.