Cops are looking for three men who viciously assaulted a 42-year-old man as he waited for the train in a Bronx subway station, police said Friday.
The victim was standing on the platform waiting for northbound No. 4 train at the 161st St.- Yankee Stadium subway station around 8 p.m. Wednesday when he got into an argument with three men he didn’t know, according to police. One of the suspects slashed him with a knife on his left abdomen, right eye and left side of his face, police said.
Then the other two suspects started punching and kicking the victim before hopping on a northbound train and disappearing, cops said.
EMS transported the victim to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition. He is expected to recover.
The attack happened during a particularly bloody week in the Bronx, in which five people were killed and a 17-year-old girl was left clinging to life after separate shootings over a six-day period.
Earlier on Wednesday, a man fatally shot the superintendent of his apartment building on College Ave. in Morrisania around 8:30 a.m., according to police. Two others were also wounded in that shooting, which was over an ongoing argument about access to the backyard, cops said.
On Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams announced the deployment of 1,000 additional cops to the Bronx. The mayor unveiled the news at a press conference at a basketball court at Haffen Park in Baychester, where 32-year-old Jaceil Banks died and 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell was left near death with a bullet lodged behind her eye after a gang-related mass shooting. A hail of more than 60 bullets were fired during that mass shooting Saturday evening, police said. Three others were also wounded by gunfire but are in stable condition.
The Bronx has seen more shootings so far this year than Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island combined. About a third of all murders in the city this year — 69 out of 206 — happened in the Bronx.
Anyone with information on the subway assault is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
