Muslim women with strollers attacked in NY

Two Muslim women pushing prams have been attacked in New York in what prosecutors are describing as a hate crime.

Two Muslim women pushing prams have been attacked in New York in what was described as a hate crime. (AAP)

A New York City woman has attacked two Muslim women who were pushing their young children in strollers and tried to rip off one woman's hijab.

Court documents say Emirjeta Xhelili approached the women near her Brooklyn home on Thursday afternoon, punching one of them in the head as she screamed obscenities and told her to leave America.

Authorities say Xhelili pushed the woman's stroller toward the ground and later tried to grab the second woman's stroller away from her.

Xhelili faces charges including assault, menacing and endangering the welfare of a child. The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has described the incident as a hate crime.