It's the randomness of it that is so frightening — pedestrians and subway riders must be on guard whenever they're in a public place, and that must grow tiresome

probably not so much, these days

Another NYC woman sucker-punched on street in attack that left her with broken jaw

Dulche Pichardo, 57, said she was commuting home from work at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a stranger took a swing at her on the sidewalk of Grand Avenue near Dean Street in Crown Heights.

“He just punched me on the right side here, very strong,” Pichardo told PIX11, adding that [he] never said a word.

Pichardo said she lost three teeth, suffered facial fractures and a broken jaw, which has been wired shut, as well as nerve damage from the brutal assault.

Her attacker, a 33-year-old gentleman of African extraction with two previous arrests for assaults, one on a policeman, was charged with a misdemeanor and as required by NY law, released without bail.

Go to the link for a roundup of a dozen or so other unprovoked assaults on Manhattan residents and tourists in the just the past few months; some of the attackers were never caught, the rest were released on their promise to return to court to receive a slap on the wrist. I’m betting the former won’t identify themselves and confess, and the latter will break their promise.