Man Grabs Marathon Runner's Buttocks, Breast After Race

Police are looking for a man who squeezed a woman's buttocks and breast as she waited for a light to change after running the 2014 TCS New York City Marathon in November.

Authorities say the suspect grabbed the 29-year-old woman's buttocks shortly after noon Nov. 2 at the corner of Fifth Avenue and West 37th Street.

She turned around to confront him and he squeezed her breast, police say. 

The woman's hand was cut as she tried to fight off the man's advances. He fled south on Fifth Avenue after groping her.

A witness snapped a cellphone image of the suspect as he was fleeing (above). 

Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

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