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‘BOARDWALK EMPIRE’ STAR STEVE BUSCEMI PUNCHED BY MANIAC IN RANDOM NYC ATTACK

By Joe Marino, Valentina Jaramillo and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Published May 12, 2024
Updated May 12, 2024, 4:13 p.m. ET

It seems no one is safe on the streets of the Big Apple these days – not even
beloved hometown actor and Brooklyn native Steve Buscemi.

Buscemi, 66, was strolling through Kips Bay last week when a brute walked up and
struck the “Boardwalk Empire” star in a broad-daylight attack – one of the
latest unprovoked assaults in the five boroughs, law enforcement sources told
The Post.

The actor suffered swelling to his face and left eye and was taken to Bellevue
Hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, his deranged assailant took off and is still on the lam, police
sources said.

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“Steve Buscemi was assaulted in Mid-Town Manhattan, another victim of a random
act of violence in the city,” Buscemi’s publicist said in a statement to The
Post.

“He is ok and appreciates everyone’s well wishes, though incredibly sad for
everyone that this has happened to while also walking the streets of New York.”

Cops said the random attack happened around 11:48 a.m. on Wednesday in front of
369 Third Ave.

“I saw he was with a woman, and then through the corner of the window I saw him
trip and fall backwards,” a worker in the area who witnessed part of the assault
told The Post. “He right away got up and ran in the opposite direction. I didn’t
see who hit him.

“It worries me for when we close because we close at 11 and it can get scary
around that time,” said the woman, who asked to be identified only as Nat.

The NYPD released surveillance photos of the alleged attacker, a bearded man
wearing a baseball cap, a blue t-shirt and black sweatpants.

The actor, a former FDNY firefighter, has a movie career that has spanned four
decades, and includes roles in award-winning films like “Fargo” and “Reservoir
Dogs.”

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A man wanted for assaulting Steve Buscemi is seen in a surveillance image
released by the NYPD. DCPI

Buscemi earned wide acclaim for his portrayal of corrupt Atlantic City pol Enoch
“Nucky” Thompson in the hit HBO series “Boardwalk Empire.”

Last week’s unprovoked attack makes him the second actor from the popular series
to fall victim to random New York City street violence this year.

On March 31, actor Michael Stuhbarg, who played gangster Arnold Rothstein on the
show, was out for a run on the Upper East Side when he was struck in the back of
the neck with a rock.

The NYPD arrested a deranged vagrant, Xavier Israel, 27, in the assault, which
took place around 7:45 p.m. near East 90th Street and East Drive.

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Steve Buscemi’s credits include “Boardwalk Empire,” “Fargo” and “Reservoir
Dogs,” a career that has spanned decades.

Israel had previously been arrested for assault and robbery in 2022.

Stuhlbarg chased after the thug and into the hands of police stationed outside
the Russian Consulate.

Meanwhile, an NYPD spokesperson said Sunday that Buscemi’s attack remains at
large.

Buscemi has been a beloved figure in his native New York and famously rushed to
the site of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 terror attacks to join his
former fire company, Engine 55.

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Brooklyn-born Steve Buscemi is a former New York firefighter who ran to Ground
Zero on 9/11 to help his old company. Matthew McDermott
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The former Emmy Award winner was one of New York’s Bravest in the 1980s.

In 2021, he dressed up as a character he played in the hit show “30 Rock” to
hand out candy to children on Halloween from a stoop in Park Slope.

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