Sushi chef sucker-punched unconscious leaving NYC subway stop in random broad-daylight attack: ‘Felt like a knife’
By Georgett Roberts, Amanda Woods, Matt Troutman,
14 hours ago
A deranged goon allegedly knocked out a sushi chef with a random sucker punch outside a Queens subway — leaving the victim barely able to eat and contemplating leaving the city.
“When I felt the hit, I felt like it was a knife or a hammer,” said Ferdianto Suwandi, 29, who was left bloodied and dazed after the violent ambush last week.
“Turned out that it was a sucker punch.”
Sushi chef Ferdianto Suwandi said a random attacker left him with a bloodied, split lip last week. Ferdianto Suwandi The attack unfolded outside the 61st Street-Woodside 7 train stop in Queens. Stephen Yang
The broad daylight attack unfolded Oct. 11 after Suwandi, who works in Manhattan, rolled up in a 7 train to Woodside Station not far from his home.
He said he ambled down the station’s stairs, checked his phone and got ready to cross the road at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue when an as-yet-unidentified man attacked him “out of nowhere.”
“I never said anything to him,” he told The Post Tuesday. “I didn’t know this guy, I never saw him before.”
The stranger’s attack knocked Suwandi out cold for roughly a minute, he said.
As Suwandi regained consciousness, he said his vision was blurred, he couldn’t hear properly and a crowd of concerned bystanders had gathered around the blood-stained scene.
“I was so shocked, honestly,” he said. “I was like, ‘What’s going on? Why is there so much blood?’
“People are asking me, ‘Yo, what happened, what happened?’ I said I don’t know what happened, but I just got knocked out for no reason and the guy got away.”
Suwandi said he was knocked unconscious and woke up bloodied, surrounded by concerned bystanders. Ferdianto Suwandi Suwandi could only eat soft foods even days after the attack. Gregory P. Mango
The dastardly crook dashed off before NYPD officers and an ambulance arrived shortly after the 4:15 p.m. assault, police said.
No arrests had been made as of Tuesday, cops said.
Medics rushed Suwandi to Elmhurst Hospital, where he needed stitches for his busted lip.
The shaken chef said days after the attack that he still found it difficult to eat.
“My lip was completely torn at the top when it happened,” he said. “The pain is not as bad as the day when I got attacked, but the emotional pain is still there.
“For now, I can only eat instant noodles, soft foods, porridge. I can’t get fried chicken, something that I really like,” he said, chuckling.
“People are afraid,” Suwandi said, pleading for government officials to address subway violence. Gregory P. Mango
Suwandi pleaded for government officials to help stop random violence on the subways and said he was thinking of “relocating” and worried about ever going back to the scene of the crime.
“People are afraid, including myself,” he said. “I’m a 29-year-old grown man and this is what happened to me. New York is not safe anymore.”
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John Grant
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I LOVE MY CITY.. Shit I've been Pressed & Harassed in the City. still couldn't pay me $100 Billion to leave I'd turn it down it's NO WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD LIKE NYC in the Summer the wild girls weed smoke in the Air west Indian day parade
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