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A 70-year-old man was pummeled during a random attack on a Midtown train platform Tuesday morning, police said. 

The elderly victim was socked in the face multiple times by a stranger while getting off the N train at West 32nd Street and Broadway shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to police.

The heartless maniac then removed $200 from the injured man’s wallet before kicking his cellphone on the train tracks, according to cops.


  A brute randomly attacked an elderly man DCPI A brute randomly attacked an elderly man DCPI

He was taken by medics to a local hospital with minor injuries, police said. 

Police released a photo of the assailant Wednesday in the hopes of catching him.

Also on Tuesday, a maniac was arrested for allegedly dousing an NYPD officer with rubbing alcohol in an East Harlem subway station — before threatening to light the cop on fire.

James Murphy, 58, of Manhattan, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest over the deranged attack early Tuesday morning on the southbound 2/3 platform of the 135th Street and Lenox Avenue station, according to cops.

The unprovoked assault comes a week after a group of teens knifed a 16-year-old boy in a Brooklyn train station.

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