Police released surveillance images Wednesday of the Midtown subway arson suspect whom they believe set a sleeping homeless man ablaze on Monday.
According to police sources, the 56-year-old victim was dozing on the Harlem-bound 3 train just after 3 a.m. on Dec. 2 as the train pulled into the 34th Street-Penn Station Subway.
Law enforcement sources said the suspect quickly stepped into the train and set the man ablaze before fleeing and boarding another train.
An MTA conductor spotted the victim staggering out of the 3 train with his lower body engulfed in flames and immediately dialed 911.
Officers from the Midtown North Precinct and NYPD Transit District 1 responded to the scene. EMS rushed the victim to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for what police described as s

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