NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A tourist was slashed across the neck in an unprovoked attack at a Long Island City subway station Thursday morning, police said Friday as they released images of a suspect.
The 29-year-old victim, a man visiting from Brazil, was on the mezzanine level of the Queens Plaza E/M/R station at 10:25 a.m. when he was attacked at random, according to cops.
A man came up from behind him with a knife and slashed the left side of his neck, police said.
The victim was transported to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, where he was in stable condition. The slasher fled the scene.
Just last Thursday, another Brazilian tourist—a 38-year-old woman—was shot in the leg as a 15-year-old gunman opened fire at JD Sports in Times Square. She suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Transit crime was up 46.1% in January compared to January 2023, according to the latest NYPD statistics.
Thursday's stabbing came a day after a homeless man assaulted a female MTA worker and a good Samaritan at the 4/5 Wall Street station on Wednesday morning; two days after a random bottle attack on a cellist at the Herald Square subway station on Tuesday; and three days after Monday's mass shooting at a Bronx subway station left a bystander dead and five people wounded. On Friday, police also released images of eight people wanted for stabbing a teen boy at a Coney Island subway station Wednesday.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.