NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Two people were attacked at subway stations in the Bronx and Manhattan in separate incidents Thursday, just hours after 2 subway conductors had also been attacked in separate incidents at two Brooklyn subway stations.
On Thursday around 11 a.m., a 15-year-old male was stabbed several times by a group of about seven teens and young adults on the platform at the 6 train's Westchester Avenue-East Tremont station in the Bronx.
The attackers fled the scene and the NYPD is hunting for them. It is unclear what prompted the attack.
Then about five hours later in Washington Heights in Manhattan, a 39-year-old man was slashed in the face and neck while exiting the A train station at 181st Street and Broadway.
The slashing followed some sort of dispute, police said.
The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition. Police are hunting for that suspect.
The 2 attacks on the straphangers followed an attack on a conductor Thursday morning at the Van Siclen Avenue station in East New York in Brooklyn -- someone threw a liquid, later determined to be water, at the conductor.
And the night before, a conductor pulling out of the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street station in Park Slope in Brooklyn was hospitalized after being hit in the face.
In regards to the attacks on the conductors, the MTA's Andy Byford, said, "These attacks are absolutely shameful and we will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to identify the perpetrators and hold them accountable to the fullest extent possible."
