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72-Year-Old Man Knocked to Ground in West Village Attack

By Natalie Musumeci on August 12, 2014 8:25am 

WEST VILLAGE —  A 72-year-old man was punched in the face in an apparently random attack in the West Village Monday afternoon, police said.

The victim was knocked to the ground with a single hit as he walked past a man waiting in front of 99 Jane St., a doorman building in a residential part of the village between Washington Street and West Street.

The male attacker immediately ran off as his victim, who was carrying a shopping bag, fell into a doorway at 5:29 p.m., surveillance video of the attack shows.