The veteran actor Steve Buscemi has suffered an unpleasant incident in the center of New York in broad daylight. The protagonist of Reservoir Dogs or The Death of Stalin was attacked last week while walking through the Big Apple in the neighborhood of Kips Bay, Manhattan district. The attacker has not yet been arrested.

As reported by the ‘New York Post’, last Wednesday morning Buscemi was taking a walk on Third Avenue when, suddenly, a man approached him and hit him for no apparent reason around 11:48 am. After this, he fled the scene. The actor was bruised, with swollen left eye and face. He was treated at Bellevue Hospital and is doing well.

It is the third time that a seemingly random attack has occurred against a celebrity in recent years in the city. In the year 2020, Rick Moranis He also suffered a sudden attack in the middle of a New York street. And last March, the same thing happened to Michael Stuhlbarg, Buscemi’s co-star in the series Boardwalk Empire, who was hit in the back of the head with a rock. His attacker was arrested.

“Steve Buscemi was attacked in downtown Manhattan, another victim of a random act of violence in the city,” the actor’s publicist reported in a statement reported by the ‘New York Post’. “He’s fine and appreciates everyone’s good wishes, although it is incredibly sad for everyone that this happened to him while he was walking the streets of New York,” he also laments.

Witnesses from the place have told the source how the event was experienced. “I saw that he was with a woman and then, through the corner of the window, I saw him stumble and fall towards back,” explains a worker in the area who witnessed part of the attack. “He immediately got up and ran in the opposite direction. “I didn’t see who hit him,” he adds.

Although the aggressor has not yet been arrested, the NYPD has released surveillance images of the alleged attacker. He is a man with a bushy beard wearing a blue t-shirt, black sweatpants and a baseball cap.