Three people were stabbed in separate attacks in and around a Big Apple subway station on Monday, as a Post report revealed how violent traffic crime has become.
In one attack, a female assailant stabbed another woman in the back with a knife with an “unknown object” around 11:40 a.m. near the turnstiles at the Franklin Avenue C station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. That’s what it means.
The injured woman was taken to a local hospital, where her condition is said to be stable.
Police said the man who attacked her fled the station on foot.
A 26-year-old man was stabbed in the buttocks during an unprovoked attack on West 96th Street and Broadway just after 8 a.m. on the Upper West Side, police said.
The attack took place just steps from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd subway stations, and video showed the crime scene cordoned off outside a T-Mobile store.
According to police, the assailant fled.
In Brooklyn, a 52-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the back during a dispute over smoking inside the Kosciuszko Street J station around 4:30 a.m., authorities said.
Police said the stabbing suspect fled onto the street but was quickly taken into custody and charges are pending.
It is unclear who exactly was smoking inside the station, causing an outbreak of violence.
A recent Post analysis found a 53% jump in the number of train assaults in which victims were injured, comparing 570 felony assaults in 2023 to 373 reported in 2019. became.
According to the data, these 200 additional felony assaults accounted for just 15% of the 2,499 serious crimes reported in 2019, out of 2,285 serious crimes reported on trains and stations in 2023. , meaning assaults resulting in serious injury accounted for 25%.
