NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Two unprovoked attacks occurred at subway stations Monday night hours after the city announced hundreds of additional police officers would be deployed to patrol the transit system.
The first incident occurred at around 6 p.m. in Brooklyn, at the C train at the Kingston-Throops Avenues station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.
A 23-year-old man was stabbed in the left upper back as he stepped off the train, according to officials.
The victim took himself to the hospital for treatment and is expected to recover.
The attacker fled the scene and remains on the loose.
In a separate incident less than two hours later, a 25-year-old man was slashed in the face while at the northbound platform at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue station on the 2 and 3 lines in Harlem, the NYPD said.
Police sources told PIX11 that the victim was intoxicated and possibly homeless.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, announced that in lieu of the rise in subway attacks, another 250 NYPD officers were assigned to patrol the subways in addition to the other 3,000 cops previously deployed.
This new addition of police will make the current total NYPD transit deployment the largest in over 20 years, the mayor added.
