NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A good Samaritan was stabbed at a Bronx subway station early Thursday morning as he tried to stop two men from harassing a woman, police said.
The 53-year-old victim witnessed the harassment and intervened around 12:50 a.m. on the 2 line platform of the Pelham Parkway station.
He was stabbed in the hand as he stepped in to help, police said.
He was transported to Montefiore Medical Center in stable condition. The woman was not injured.
The suspects fled in a white van and remained at large Thursday.
The stabbing followed an assault on a subway conductor at the 170th Street station on the 4 line in the Bronx Wednesday morning. She was randomly bashed in the head with a glass bottle but is expected to recover.
The attacks came as Gov. Kathy Hochul rolled out a five-point plan Wednesday to crack down on subway crime, including the deployment of 1,000 National Guard members, state police officers and MTA police officers to help with bag checks at high-profile subway stops.
New York State Police, MTAPD and New York National Guard patrol and conduct container inspections at Grand Central Station on March 6, 2024.Adam Gray/Getty Images
The 1,000 state personnel will be in addition to 1,000 NYPD officers who were already surged into the transit system last month in response to a 46% increase in transit crime in January.
The New York Civil Liberties Union slammed the plan as "another unfortunate example of policymaking through overreaction and overreach."
"Sound policy making will not come from overreacting to incidents that, while horrible and tragic, should not be misrepresented as a crime wave and certainly don't call for a reversion to failed broken windows policies of the past," said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the NYCLU, referring to the policing theory that going after smaller crimes can help stem greater disorder.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
