The man was struck by the train and killed at the 40th Street station near Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside, pictured
New York Police Department chief spokesman Paul Browne said the woman fled the scene after the shocking attack and officers were searching for her.
She was described as Hispanic, in her 20s, heavyset and about 5-foot-5, wearing a blue, white and gray ski jacket and Nike sneakers with gray on top and red on the bottom.
'It's the urban nightmare,' Browne told Bloomberg, adding that the woman appeared to wait until the last possible moment before pushing the man in front of the approaching train.
Browne said there was 'no trend' of such horrific occurrences despite the incident being the second of its type in the space of a month.
Hunt: New York Police Department chief spokesman Paul Browne said the woman fled the scene, pictured, after the shocking attack and officers were searching for her
Investigation: Officers, pictured, quizzed witnesses after the shocking incident
'It's sometimes in the back of peoples' minds because of the incident preceding this one, but there's no indication that it is related in any way or inspired it,' he said
It was unclear if the man and the woman knew each other or if anyone tried to help the man up before he was struck by the train and killed at the 40th Street station near Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside.
By 10:30, the victim's mangled body was still on the tracks, according to The Sunnyside Post.
'I heard the train screech as it was stopping and then heard this loud scream,' Linda Santini-Tripodis, who was beneath the 40th Street station at the time, told the newspaper. 'I'm never going to forget that scream for as long as I live.'
Crime scene: The shocking incident occurred at around 8pm at the station, pictured, and is the second horrific case this month
Shocking: The man, who hasn't been identified, was standing on the elevated platform of a 7 train in Queens at about 8pm when he was shoved on the tracks
Police are viewing surveillance video from a pizza restaurant located opposite the station in the hope that it will help them identify the woman.
'If she came out through that exit then yes but there are four exits so I hope they can find something,' the restaurant's owner, Giovanni Briones, told CBS New York.
On December 3, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han was shoved in front of a train in Times Square.
A photograph of him on the tracks a split second before he was killed was published on the front of the New York Post the next day, causing an uproar and debate over whether the photographer, who had been waiting for a train, should have tried to help him and whether the newspaper should have run the image.
Apparently no one else tried to help up Han, either.
Charged: Homeless man, 30-year-old Naeem Davis, pictured, was charged with murder after pushing a man under a train on December 3
Ki-Suck Han, pictured, was shoved in front of a train in Times Square
A homeless man, 30-year-old Naeem Davis, was charged with murder in Han's death and is being held without bail.
He has pleaded not guilty, claiming Han was the aggressor and had attacked him first. The two men hadn't met before.
Service was suspended tonight on the 7 train line, which connects Manhattan and Queens, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been using buses to shuttle riders while police investigate.
Being pushed onto the train tracks is a silent fear for many of the commuters who ride the city's subway a total of more than 5.2 million times on an average weekday, but deaths are rare.
Among the more high-profile cases was the January 1999 death of aspiring screenwriter Kendra Webdale, who was shoved by a former mental patient.
After that, the state Legislature passed Kendra's Law, which lets mental health authorities supervise patients who live outside institutions to make sure they are taking their medications and aren't threats to safety.
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