Just hours after congestion pricing went into effect, a man was stabbed at a Bronx station early Sunday morning, forcing more New Yorkers to ride the increasingly violent subway system.
It was not immediately clear whether the victim and suspect knew each other or what prompted the attack, police officials said.
A 38-year-old man was slashed in the arm just before 4 a.m. inside the 6th Express station at 3rd Avenue and 138th Street in Mott Haven, police sources told The Post.
His assailants fled the station.
Police said the victim was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition.
The incident follows days of disturbing violence on New York City's subways, including the horrific arson death of Debrina Khawam, 57, of Toms River, New Jersey, at the Stilwell Avenue Coney Island station in Brooklyn. It happened while I was there. Khawam was allegedly set on fire by illegal immigrant Sebastian Zapeta Khalil and is currently being held on charges of first-degree murder.
In the days since Khawam's heartbreaking death, there have been at least five attacks, including one on Thursday at the Pelham Parkway station where an MTA worker was stabbed on his way to work in the Bronx.
Last week, four other straphangers were also slashed on consecutive days. A 52-year-old man was stabbed in the arm at the Myrtle Wyckoff L station in Brooklyn. On New Year's Day, a 48-year-old man was slashed in the neck and two other people were injured at the West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue station in Manhattan.
In the latter two incidents, a 30-year-old man was cut in the arm during an altercation with another commuter at Manhattan's 110th Street Cathedral Parkway station, and a 31-year-old man was stabbed in the back at the station. Arrive at Manhattan's 14th Street Station in just 15 minutes.
On Tuesday, music programmer Joseph Lynskey, 45, was apparently randomly shoved in front of a train on Manhattan's Line 1. — and miraculously survived.
In response to the escalation in violence, the city's volunteer vigilante group, the Guardian Angels, resumed patrolling the subway for the first time since 2020, at levels not seen since its inception in the late 1970s.
