NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – One man was stabbed and another slashed Tuesday night at subway stations in Midtown, police said, hours after MTA officials announced a drop in transit crime.
The first attack happened around 11:30 p.m. at the 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station, where six people were involved in a fight on the A/C/E platform, police said.
NYPD officers responding to 911 calls found the 31-year-old victim with a stab wound to the torso. He was transported to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue in stable condition.
At least four suspects fled on a subway train and remained at large Wednesday.
Meanwhile, just blocks away at the 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station, a 24-year-old man was slashed in the arm during a fight, police said. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries. A 25-year-old man was quickly arrested at the scene by police.
The attacks came just hours after MTA chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said subway crime fell 7% system-wide in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period in 2023. He said subway crime is down 11% since 2019.
"I think that we could really knock those numbers down even further if we start to put the recidivists out of the system," Lieber said. "The people who get five to 10, to 20, to 50 arrests every year, and there are a lot of them, that are committing a disproportionate amount of the crime."
