Crime & Safety

Perv Gropes Woman At Nevins Street Subway Station: NYPD

The Fort Greene groper grabbed the 23-year-old woman's butt before fleeing the station, police said.

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN -- Police are searching for a man who groped a 23-year-old woman as she was walking into a Fort Greene subway station.

The perv walked up behind the woman and grabbed her butt while she was walking through a turnstile of the Nevins Street station during rush hour on July 2, authorities said.

The man then bolted up the stairs and escaped in an unknown direction, cops said.

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Police described the perp as being in his late teens or early twenties and having black hair. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, multicolored pants and black sneakers.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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