A creep randomly shoved a woman into a metal pillar inside a Manhattan subway station — the latest in a rash of attacks on the Big Apple transit system, police said Tuesday.
The 55-year-old victim suffered cuts to her face and head in Monday night’s assault on the southbound F train platform at the West 4th Street–Washington Square station.
She was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Matthew Montanez, 23, of Queens, was collared moments after the 9:30 p.m. attack and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, cops said.
He has several previous arrests, including for assault, robbery, larceny and resisting arrest, according to police.
Montanez also has mental health issues, including hearing voices, and is known to go off his medication, law enforcement sources said.
He was awaiting arraignment on the new charges late Tuesday.
Police originally believed Montanez had allegedly pushed the victim into the side of a moving train, but later found out she had actually been shoved into the platform pillar.
The assault is the latest in a series of random attacks and shovings at subway stations in the city.
Last week, 51-year-old man was slashed in the face in a random attack at the 110th Street station in East Harlem last week.
Last month, a 33-year-old homeless man with a history of mental illness was charged with attempted murder for pushing a Brooklyn straphanger onto the tracks at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station.
In another attack, an Elmhurst construction worker was slugged by a stranger on a Queens Plaza subway platform while waiting for the R train to get to work.






