A plucky elderly woman on her way to a New Year’s Day church service fought back when a violent group of teen girls pummeled her during a botched robbery inside a Brooklyn subway station, cops said.
Linda Rosa, 71 – a retired MTA computer operation worker who lives in East New York – got off a No. 3 train at Hoyt Street just after 6 p.m. and had just passed through the turnstile when one of the four girls tried to grab her purse, she told The Post Friday.
“And then I [said to myself], ‘Oh, no, this is not going to happen today,’” Rosa said.
Then, another teen tried to grab Rosa’s bag too and said: “Oh, you want to fight?”
Rosa continued holding tight to her purse, which didn’t discourage the young would-be robbers.
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“The first person kept fighting,” Rosa said. “She punched me in my face and I have my glasses on, and I have a cut on my nose. When she punched me in my face, my glasses flew to the floor.”