Accused Midtown Subway Masturbator is Retired NYPD Officer, Sources Say
(DNAINFO) Ben Fractenberg and Murray Weiss | October 22, 2015 — A Staten Island man accused of masturbating in front of a woman waiting at a Midtown N/R train platform — and then pulling out a gun on a man who tried to stop him — is a retired NYPD officer who claimed he was just peeing on the subway platform, according to court documents and sources.
Steven Esposito, 56, made hissing sounds and then exposed himself to a 38-year-old woman while they waited on the southbound N/R platform at the Fifth Avenue-59th Street station just before midnight on Monday, according to authorities.