Terrifying events were captured on video in SoHo when a mob of illegal street vendors stomped a couple from Long Island as they fled police.
Rosalyn Landsman said she and her husband Marty were headed to the subway last Wednesday afternoon when they were unexpectedly knocked to the ground by merchants.
The Roslyn Heights mother and grandmother celebrated her 75th birthday. The 45-year-old married couple was walking down Canal Street, holding hands.
Landsman claimed she banged her head on the sidewalk, and police told her that three persons stepped on her.
She claims she can’t remember anything after being shoved and spending four days in the hospital with a shattered clavicle, broken ribs, and stitches in her forehead.
Surveillance camera recorded her 79-year-old husband being knocked to the ground and helplessly crawling to her.
“I was knocked down and my husband was knocked down and then he went to call to me and he thought I was dead, and I was laying there, but it was very scary,” she recalled!
Doctors estimate it will take the former New York City speech and language teacher four to six months to recover.
“Every now and then, the room starts spinning, but what if I had hit it harder? “I do think about it,” Landsman remarked.
The NYPD was conducting a raid on illicit vendors who routinely set up shop to sell counterfeit goods on the renowned strip near Lafayette. And it is what prompted the suspects to flee.
“I bet that they don’t even know what they did,” Landsman remarked.
Landsman is still healing, but she says she will not let the incident deter her from returning to Manhattan.
The five vendors who trampled the couple have not been apprehended by authorities.
Anyone with information should contact the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).