Police Search for Subway Commuter Who Touched Multiple Women on 1 Train

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Police are looking for a man who is sitting down next to women on subway trains and rubbing their thighs. According to police, a man has done it twice in the last month and they believe he's the same suspect responsible for a similar incident five years ago.

The two most recent incidents happened in mid- to late-September. On Sept. 19, the man got on a 1 train at the 66th Street station on the Upper West Side and sat next to a 24-year-old woman at 5:40 p.m. He rubbed the outside of her thigh on the moving 1 train, police said.

Then, on Sept. 29, at 6:45 p.m. the same man sat down next to an 18-year-old woman at the 42nd Street 1 train station and rubbed the inside of the woman's thigh, police said.

Police believe this is the same man who they were searching for five years ago in a similar incident on a 1 train at 110th Street. That incident happened sometime in late 2011 or early 2012 when the same man rubbed the inside of a 13-year-old girl's thigh, according to police. The Daily News reports the then-13-year-old and the 18-year-old are twin sisters and the woman assaulted five years ago recognized the man in a photo taken by her sister after last month's incident.

The suspect is described by police as a white man, in his 40s, about 6-foot tall and last seen wearing a green T-shirt and black backpack.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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