A woman is in critical condition after being shoved into a moving subway train in New York City’s Midtown Wednesday. 

The 29-year-old was pushed and fell onto the subway tracks, hitting her head on a Southbound F train leaving the 53rd Street-Fifth Avenue subway Station at around 12.05pm. 

She suffered a critical head injury and has been sent to New York Presbyterian Hospital for treatment. She is currently out of surgery and has not been identified.

NYPD identified the suspect, Sabir Jones, a 39-year-old, a six-foot-tall man last seen wearing a white-grey shirt and grey sweatpants. 

‘He is known to the department,’ chief of transit NYPD Michael Kemper said. 

The identification of the suspect was made recently and his image will be released shortly, the authorities said. 

A 29-year-old woman was shoved and fell onto the subway tracks at 5 Av/53 St

She hit her head on a Southbound F train leaving the 53rd Street-Fifth Avenue subway Station

She suffered a critical head injury and has been sent to a nearby hospital

The suspect is said to have a criminal history.  He was heard mumbling to himself when he randomly pushed the victim to the subway tracks. 

Jones fled from the scene as bystanders pulled the woman off the tracks and back on the platform. Cops have not yet made an arrest. 

Authorities said subway crime in New York City is down overall but it is not consolation to a New Yorker who ‘is just trying to live her life’. 

‘The past year we have made tremendous progress on subway crime, crime is 9% down where it was the past year before COVID,’ said MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber.

‘But that’s no consolation to the family of this young woman who is fighting for her life in Cornell Hospital.’ 

‘New Yorkers put up with a lot, what they cant put up with is people randomly coming up to them, which appears to be the case here, and attacking them.’

‘I’m not a mental health professional, but I’m sure that the people who are, have to figure out how to get these people out of the public space and into treatment,’ said MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber.

‘When ambitious young people who are just trying to live their lives are subject to random attacks, we can’t put up with it,’ Lieber added. 

The NYPD reports a decrease in incidents, with 15 cases of individuals being pushed onto subway tracks this year compared to 22 cases recorded at this time last year. 

Emergency medical services and NYPD rushed to the scene at around noon Wednesday 

No arrest has been made. The police are searching for the suspect

The suspect is described as a man in his 20s, six feet tall, last seen wearing a white grey shirt and grey sweatpants

The case is under investigation as crime scene tapes are seen all around the station

Emergency teams rushed to the scene and the case is under investigation. 

E and F trains were severely disrupted in both directions as the police conducting investigation, the New York City subway said in its social media posts. 

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Photos acquired by MailOnline.com show crime scene tape all around the station as the police continue their investigation. 

E and F trains have resumed making stops between Queens and Manhattan, but are still running with extensive delays and bypassing the 53rd Street-Fifth Avenue. 

Less than 24 hours ago, a 51-year-old man was repeated stabbed in another random, unprovoked attack at a Bronx subway station. 

 E and F trains were severely disrupted in both directions

E and F trains have resumed making stops between Queens and Manhattan, but are running with extensively delays 

The suspect plunged a knife into the man’s shoulder and leg when he was on the steps to exit the Fordham Road train station at around 8.25pm. 

He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

As of Wednesday, the attacker’s whereabouts remain unclear. 

Last month, a suspect named Norton Blake, 43, was seen beating down 60-year-old Laurell Reynolds inside a Harlem subway station. 

E and F trains continue to bypass the 53rd Street-Fifth Avenue as the police conduct further investigation 

NYPD has not identified the victim and is searching for the suspect 

He was let go without being arrested after after he and Reynolds offered conflicting accounts of the attack

The shocking attack showed him beating down on his victim for two minutes at West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station in Harlem.

He tries to first whack her with his umbrella as she attempts to ward him off with the cane.

He said he stripped off his belt to ‘defend himself’ against his walker-bound victim, and then attacked her with it, an indictment presented in court earlier this month shows. 

E, F, M, and R trains have been severely disrupted due to the case 

EMS and police responded to someone in need of medical assistance at around noon Wednesday 

The suspect is described as a man in his 20s, six feet tall, last seen wearing a white grey shirt and grey sweatpants

Despite a series of shocking violent incidents, the subway crime has reportedly plunged to levels not seen in decades in the Big Apple.  

The New York Police Department announced in March that subway crime was down 21.5 percent from the same time last year, after Mayor Eric Adams ordered more cops to patrol the underground transit system. 

In the first nine weeks of 2023, authorities said, cops doled out nearly 10,000 more summonses than at the start of last year. 

Every category of serious felonies was down, except for burglaries, which remained flat with two reported so far this year.

Those were the lowest levels of felony crime on the subways dating back to the beginning of the data-collecting Compstat system in the mid-1990s, the New York Post reported, excluding the kickoff of 2021 when the COVID pandemic hit.