A man was stabbed in a Bronx train station early Sunday, just hours after congestion pricing was implemented, forcing more New Yorkers into the increasingly dangerous subway system.
It was unclear whether the victim and suspect knew each other, or what prompted the attack, according to police sources.
According to police sources, the 38-year-old man was sliced in the arm inside the Third Avenue and 138th Street No. 6 express station in Mott Haven just before 4 a.m.
His attacker fled the station.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and is in stable condition, according to police.
The incident occurred amid days of disturbing violence on New York City subways, including the horrifying arson death of 57-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms River, NJ, at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, an illegal migrant, is currently being held on first-degree murder charges after allegedly setting fire to Kawam.
In the days following Kawam’s tragic death, at least five attacks occurred, including the stabbing of an MTA staffer on his way to work in The Bronx on Thursday at the Pelham Parkway station.
Four other straphangers were slashed on consecutive days in the last week, including a 52-year-old man knifed in the arm at the Myrtle-Wyckoff L train station in Brooklyn, a 48-year-old man slashed in the neck at the West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue station in Manhattan, and two others on New Year’s Day.
In the latter two incidents, a 30-year-old man was cut in the arm during a fight with another commuter at the 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway station in Manhattan, and a 31-year-old man was stabbed in the back at the 14th Street station just 15 minutes later.
On Tuesday, music programmer Joseph Lynskey, 45, was apparently randomly pushed in front of a Manhattan No. 1 train — and miraculously managed to escape alive.
The increased violence has prompted the Guardian Angels, the city’s volunteer vigilante watchdog group, to resume subway patrols for the first time since 2020 — and at levels unprecedented since their inception in the late 1970s.
