A bloody outbreak of crime found the city’s metro system in the past week – with at least five people injured in a series of attacks, including stabbing, sliding lines and a beating, Cops said.
In the most recent burst of violence, a man was cut to his hand while trying a knife-waving woman on board a train no. 4 in East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem on Wednesday morning, said the police and sources.
The 21-year-old woman and the 43-year-old man, who don’t know each other, started to argue around 6.40 am on the train, the police said.
The woman flashed with a knife and the two shuffled while the man tried to disarm her, the authorities said.
The dust left the woman with a cut on her left elbow and the man with an oblique wound on a finger on his left hand, the police said.
The woman was transported to the Harlem hospital, where she was mentioned in a stable state. She was also taken in police detention, with charges, the authorities said.
The man was treated on the spot for his injury, the police said.
In a Tuesday afternoon attack, a 29-year-old straphanger hit and stuck over a casual punch on board a train that runs through Midtown, the police and sources said.
The victim bumped into the 23-year-old Shemar Shaw aboard a Southbound M-train in the 47-50 streets/Rockefeller Center Station just after 2 p.m. when the threat flew into the face in an anger and knead him in his Right, said agents and sources.
The victim was taken to the Bellevue Hospital, where he was mentioned in a stable state.
Shaw, from Brooklyn, was caught on the spot and accused of abuse and criminal possession of a weapon, the authorities said.
Shaw was released in August on conditional release after serving in the state prison for more than five years for a robbery and abuse, according to the online State Department of Corrections records.
He was also released on his own recognition after an arrest of November for the Interior attack in Brooklyn, according to Cops and Online Records.
He was also arrested for criminal possession of a weapon and threat, the police said. In total, Shaw’s rap magazine includes nine charges and three crimes, says sources.
In another attack on Sunday afternoon, a stranger hit a teenager in a Bronx metro station, Cops said.
The attacker approached the 18-year-old victim in the big hall and the east of 174th Street Station in the Morris Heights part of the Bronx around 3 p.m. and hit him several times before he took off, the authorities said.
The motive for the attack is unclear and the victim refused medical help for minor injuries, the police said.
The NYPD released a short security clip of the backpack-bearing attacker in the station, with his hood up. He was still on the loose Wednesday.
A Staredown led to another stabbed in a Queens Subway Station at the end of last week, said the police and sources.
A 28-year-old man waited for a northern R-train in Steinway Street in Astoria around 11:45 pm on Friday when a collision broke out between him and another rider about eye contact, the police said.
The stranger stuck him in the leg and torso several times before he rises, the police said.
The victim was taken to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was mentioned in a stable state.
No arrests were made in connection with the attack and the NYPD has released a video of the long -haired attacker with an decorative who wore an umbrella while walking on the platform.
He was still on the loose Wednesday.
Despite the violence, the NYPD adhered last month with double digits in transit crime.
The data from the Department showed that throughput crimes fell 36.4% in January – reported 147 of such cases last month, compared to 231 in January 2024.
So far this year up to and including Sunday 49 crime attacks have been reported in the city’s metro system, against the 58 that was registered in the same period last year, according to the latest statistics.
But last week it was particularly violent for the metro system, reported with 11 crime attacks, compared to only six during the same piece in 2024, according to the data.
