NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A subway rider was slashed and pepper-sprayed on a Midtown Manhattan train early Wednesday in the latest assault in the transit system, police said.
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The 57-year-old victim got into an argument on a northbound 1 train with another man, believed to be a panhandler, who was waving a knife around 1:30 a.m.
The assailant reportedly attacked the rider after he turned down a request for money.
The suspect slashed the victim on his right arm and then pepper-sprayed him as the train was pulling into the 50th Street station north of Times Square, police said.
The slasher got off the train as the doors opened and ran away. No arrests had been reported as of Wednesday.
The victim stayed on the train and got off at the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station, where he sought help from police. He was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A number of transit assaults have made headlines in recent days, including a woman who was bashed over the head in an unprovoked attack in Harlem on Monday.
Over the weekend, a 55-year-old man was stabbed to death on an MTA bus in the Bronx. Last Thursday, a 38-year-old man was also fatally stabbed in a random knife attack on a Bronx subway platform. Days before that, a homeless man slashed a 43-year-old man to death on a subway train in Brooklyn as the victim headed home from work.
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