UPDATE (OCTOBER 7): Police have announced the arrest of 59-year-old Angelo Del Guercio for the assault described below. The resident of West 92nd Street is being charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
ORIGAL ARTICLE WRITTEN OCTOBER 6:
At about 2:20 p.m. on Thursday, a 66-year-old woman and her 29-year-old daughter were riding bikes in Central Park near 96th Street and West Drive.The older woman came close to colliding with a man who was walking on the path, at which point he started yelling at her and “struck her on the head with what appeared to be a collapsible baton,” according to NYPD officials.
Screenshots from cell phone video taken at the scene.
The woman fell off her bike and onto the ground, at which point her daughter attempted to confront the man and recorded a video of him.
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He kept walking and escaped in an unknown direction. Police are hoping someone will be able to identify and locate him.
The victim sustained a laceration to her head and was removed by EMS to Mount Sinai Hospital in stable condition.
Police describe the male suspect as approximately 50 years old with a medium complexion, medium build and black hair. He was last seen wearing sunglasses, a blue t-shirt, tan cargo shorts and gray sneakers. He was also carrying a blue hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with relevant information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or by sending a direct message to @NYPDTips on Twitter.
STOP RIDING BIKES ON THE PATH. IT IS FOR PEDESTRIANS.
There are signs saying that bikes need to be dismounted and walked.
That’s your takeaway? Not “don’t hit elderly women in the head with a baton?” I mean, I guess that’s a window on your moral views, but… wow.
Agree with you entirely except for your characterization of a 66-year-old woman as “elderly.”
Sincerely,
A 66-year-old woman
There’s nothing wrong with being elderly — it just means you’re an elder. Sure, people can now be active until they’re nearly on their death beds — serve in the Senate, even — but elderly is elderly. No reason to try to pretend it away.
Guy was walking in the bike lane: https://abc7ny.com/central-park-tourist-attacked-bike-path-attack-arrest/13870503/
Rush to outrage more
There’s a path at 96th St designated for bikes to cross the park.
Honestly, which is worse? Riding a bike in the wrong spot or assault?
Like the signs all over the place pertaining to dogs and their human dirt bags.
Sorry. Can’t condone the hitting, but bikes on the pedestrian paths are a dangerous menace. Just keep your bike riding to the bike paths and avoid the problem entirely. In this case, the victim bears a good portion of the blame.
She. Wasn’t. On. The. Pedestrian. Path.
He was walking on in the bike lance. She accidentally bumped him, and he assaulted her with a baton. Come on people.
Even if you weren’t just completely wrong on the facts, anyone who thinks that an elderly woman tourist deserves to be beaten with a baton for riding on the wrong path — which, again, she didn’t even do — has something very, very wrong with them.
Also, he’s been found and arrested. Angelo Del Guerico. @NYC_apt_Angel
It sounds good that the police have functioned in one category where they should. But as readers are well aware, there are multiple examples where pedestrians have been assaulted by riders/drivers of two wheeled vehicles, both pedal and motorized, and in that situation we keep being told that as a matter of department policy the police will not do anything. So if the pedestrian hits the rider the pedestrian gets arrested, but not vice versa. I guess if the violent pedestrian were to jump on a bike and start riding away then that person would not be apprehended. I cannot sort this out in my mind as I cannot perceive any logic, consistency or public policy which can explain this.
True, the police claim “bikes” are just a quality of life issue. Not an actual danger.
I had someone from Breakaway threaten me with violence after he cut me off on the sidewalk with his wagon train 12 inches away and I called him out.
I’ve never met a cyclist who intentionally hit a pedestrian. So you’re comparing intentional violence to a negligent collision. I know that’s a favorite tactic of Transportation Alternatives — obscuring the difference between negligence and intentional violence — but the two are very different.
Dude,
Define “intentionally”.
I’ve seen cyclists and “cyclists” drive as if they’re the only party using the sidewalk, where they’re illegal, “bike” lanes, and streets. This means speeding up to a red when a pedestrian is obviously about to cross, and not stopping until the pedestrian is 12 inches from the “bike”. This means driving within 12 inches of pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Those are examples of intentionally coming real close to hitting pedestrians.
You’ve not been paying attention or don’t live in NYC.
If you don’t know what intentionally means then I’m sure you didn’t grow up in New York because our educational system… well, it leaves something to be desired, but at least the kids know what “intentionally” means. “Coming too close” and “intentionally hitting” are very different — an intent to try to squeeze through in a crowded city is not at all the same as an intent to bash open the head of an elderly woman.
Dude,
Driving perpendicular to someone (pedestrian) and expecting him/her to stop his forward progress is intentionally threatening to hit someone with your bike or “bike” so as to continue on your ride/drive illegally. This pretty much happens to me as a pedestrian in NYC every other day, and this has been true for all of Adams’ years, I’ve also been hit by a j-a who supposed he could break the law stupidly as I was about to step on to the sidewalk. His choice was intentional, meaning he was obviously intentionally ignoring good driving practices are risking hitting me, which he did.
So no, you don’t know what intentionally means, and if you’ve been in NYC, you’ve not spent more than a few hours here over the last 15+ years.
Typical…..
https://www.facebook.com/angelo.delguercio Typical Sclumpturd
FFS, stop referring to a 66-year-old person as “elderly”. I know so many people that age, and older, who are way more active and engaged and capable than people one-third of their age.
I’m glad this shtick dreck was arrested.
Don’t ride in pedestrian-designated areas and don’t walk in bicycle-designated areas. How f*cking hard is that to comply with?
I got news for you…66 years old is elderly whether you like it or not!
Did you read what you wrote? The victim is to blame for being assaulted? Here’s a buck, go buy a moral compass.
I wanted to supplement my earlier comment: All wheeled vehicles are required by law to yield to pedestrians, whether or not the pedestrian is crossing against the light or is in a bicycle lane. No one has license to bash bicyclists and no rider has license to plow into pedestrians. The problem seems to be arising in the last 2 or 3 years more urgently because the city’s DOT added bike lanes and Citibikes to our cityscape, and at the same time we have a proliferation of motorized 2-wheel vehicles, virtually none of which abide by the traffic laws. Cars and trucks tend to stop at red lights and wait for the light to change, while the e-bikes, scooters, motorcycles go through red lights as a matter of routine. So pedestrians are put at risk with growing frustration. It is not surprising that some pedestrians will strike out at riders who almost mow them down, regardless of whether the pedestrians are in bike lanes or crossing against the light, because if they wait to cross until they have a green light or if they only walk on sidewalks, they can still be mowed down and there is no safe way or time when they can walk without being under threat. To me, this means the govt is simply failing us, and so then we should not surprised if we have vigilantes.
Should do much worse to these cyclists who run down NY citizens every day. Lock them up and throw out the key.
Oh boy… a bicycle / pedestrian altercation. These are always civil discussions