Man stabbed in NYC subway station as congestion pricing starts
A man was stabbed in a Bronx train station early Sunday, mere hours after congestion pricing went into effect, forcing more New Yorkers into the increasingly violent subway system.
It was not immediately clear if the victim and suspect knew each other or what prompted the attack, police sources said.
The 38-year-old man was sliced in the arm inside the Third Avenue and 138th Street No. 6 express station in Mott Haven just before 4 a.m., police sources told The Post.
His attacker fled the station.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition, police said.
The incident comes amid days of disturbing violence on New York City subways, including the horrifying arson death of 57-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms River, NJ, at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn. Kawam was allegedly set ablaze by illegal migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, who is now being held on first-degree murder charges.
There were at least five attacks in the days after Kawam’s heartbreaking death, including the stabbing of an MTA staffer heading to work in The Bronx on Thursday at the Pelham Parkway station.
Four other straphangers were slashed on consecutive days in the past week, too: a 52-year-old man knifed in the arm at the Myrtle-Wyckoff L train station in Brooklyn; a 48-year-old man slashed in the neck at the West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue station in Manhattan and two others on New Year’s Day.
In the latter two incidents, a 30-year-old man was cut in the arm during a dispute with another commuter at the 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway station in Manhattan, and a 31-year-old man was stabbed in the back at the 14th Street station in Manhattan just 15 minutes later.
On Tuesday, music programmer Joseph Lynskey, 45, was apparently randomly pushed in front of a Manhattan No. 1 train — and miraculously managed to escape with his life
The increased violence has prompted the Guardian Angels, the city’s volunteer vigilante watchdog group, to resume patrols in the subways for the first time since 2020 — and at levels not seen since their inception in the late 1970s.
