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Disturbing footage shows a man hitting a 60-year-old woman more than 50 times with her own cane in a Harlem subway station.
The attack happened just before 3:30 a.m. Friday, when the woman was walking at the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station, NYPD officials told The Post.
The shocking, two-minute video shows the unidentified male lunging at the woman with an umbrella and the woman trying to fight him off with her cane.
The suspect is able to grab the woman’s cane as she falls to the ground screaming.
The man then strikes the woman with her own cane more than 50 times in the head, stomach, leg, arms, back and hands so hard that the wooden implement falls apart.
The woman, who is on her back by that point, manages to grab what is left of her cane away from the deranged man, who then starts pummeling her head with his fist.
In the shocking video, the man continues to throw punches and yell at the stunned woman, while his own pants start to fall down with the effort.
The woman remains motionless on the ground for a few seconds until the suspect kicks her several more times before the video cuts off.
The NYPD responded to the 911 call of an assault at about 3:30 a.m., sources told The Post, but during the video of the beating, no MTA workers, police or subway riders intervened.
NYPD sources also told The Post the 60-year-old woman did not know the suspect.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she is thought to be in stable condition.
The unidentified suspect fled before police arrived. It is unclear how the argument between the two began.
There were no reports of an arrest Monday night and the investigation is ongoing, NYPD officials said.