Officer Guarding Mayor on Subway Is Attacked

A man attacked a member of Mayor Bloomberg's subway security detail as the mayor was standing nearby yesterday afternoon, police said.

Mayor Bloomberg was on the northbound Fulton Street platform of the 4, 5, and 6 trains when a 30-year-old man pounced on the transit officer, who travels with the mayor regularly when he takes the subway.

The mayor was removed from the area immediately, police said, noting that the attacker did not seem to be targeting Mr. Bloomberg.

The officer had minor injuries to his back and arm after the attack, and a plainclothes officer who came to his aid was hurt in the wrist.

The mayor called to check on the two officers after they were taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, a spokesman for the mayor said. Both were in stable condition.

The incident will not deter the mayor from commuting on the the subway to work, as he does regularly, a spokesman, Stuart Loeser, said.

"He is absolutely not rethinking it," Mr. Loeser said, referring to the mayor's subway riding. "Subways are safer than ever."