NEW YORK — Police are looking for the person who punched a Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker in the face inside a subway station over the weekend. 

It happened just before 3 a.m. Sunday at the 148th street stop on the number 3 line in Harlem. 

Police say the attacker got into a verbal dispute with the employee.

The MTA worker was taken to Saint Luke's Hospital but did not suffer any serious injuries.

Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-8477, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.