It happened just before 9 p.m. Tuesday at the East Broadway F train station near Rutgers Street.
Eyewitness News obtained exclusive surveillance video of the incident, which shows the assailant waiting until the 56-year-old victim walks past him to launch the attack.
Police are investigating yet another unprovoked attack against a person of Asian descent
He punches the victim and pushes him to the ground, where he punches him in the eye and elbows him in the mouth repeatedly.
The construction worker, Teoh Ming Soon, is an immigrant from Malaysia and has been in the U.S. for about 20 years.
SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) The heartbroken widow of the Good Samaritan who died during a stabbing outside an underground gambling den in Brooklyn is speaking out.
Jin Zhao, 39, still can t process the horrific nightmare - that her husband, Yong Zheng, a hero to his last breath, is gone. Still couldn t believe that he s gone, Zhao said through a translator.
On Friday night, Zheng was celebrating the lantern festival with some friends in Sunset Park, when they saw an Asian man being viciously attacked and robbed. With anti-Asian violence spiking across the country, Zheng did not hesitate to help.
By the end of the vicious fight, blood was shed and four men were stabbed - one of them fatally.that was Zheng, the Good Samaritan.
William Smith, 45, is facing charges of murder, robbery, and three counts of assault.
On Friday night, Yong Zheng, 46, was celebrating the lantern festival with some friends in Sunset Park, when they saw an Asian man being viciously attacked and robbed. With anti-Asian violence spiking across the country, Zheng did not hesitate to help.
By the end of the vicious fight, blood was shed and four men were stabbed - one of them fatally.that was Zheng, the good Samaritan. He heard a robbery - he didn t know what was going on. He saw a crime, he tried to stop it, Zhao said.