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A 23-year-old who asked only to be identified as “Nicole” is suing NYC Transit for “failing to meet the standard of care owed . . . to their passengers.”

The rape, which took place on the platform of the 21st Street stop in Long Island City, was witnessed by the attendant on duty who stayed in his booth and pressed a silent alarm. According to NYC Transit, the attendant did what he was trained to do.

“It’s abominable what happened to me, but it’s even scarier to think about it happening to countless scores of other women because policies weren’t changed,” Nicole told The Post.

The NYU grad was attacked during the early hours of June 7, 2005, as she rode a Queens-bound G train. The pervert first began to stroke her feet. Disgusted, Nicole got up and moved - only to be pursued by the creep.

She got off the train at the next stop, 21st Street in Long Island City, not realizing he had followed her until she felt his tongue on her foot.

“It freaked me out so much that I started running up the stairs,” she said.

The creep caught up with her and began pulling her down the stairs as a screaming Nicole made eye contact with booth clerk John Koort.

“I had this thought that, ‘Finally, I am safe, there is another person in here, I am not alone, I can get out of it,’ ” she recalled.

Instead, she was dragged down the steps and sexually assaulted on the platform before the pervert forced her into a filthy toolshed and fled.

She later learned that train conductor Harmodio Cruz had witnessed the crime as he rode by and pressed his own panic button but, he said, couldn’t stop in time to help her.

The gist of the NYC Transit’s argument is that the attendant has to stay in the booth because he’s can’t be sure if he’s just being setup. One thing is for sure, “Nicole” took the attendant’s lack of help harder than she took the actual assault. While she forgives her “sick” assailant, Nicole says, “Every time I think about the token-booth guy . . . it just makes my blood boil. I really feel like he is not someone I can forgive,” she said.

Photo courtesy of Hagen Stier’s Flickr
LEFT IN GRIP OF RAPIST [NY Post]

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