A 37-year-old man was slashed in the face during a clash on a Brooklyn subway train early Saturday, police said.
The attack comes as cops try to get a handle on an uptick in assaults on city subway lines.
The victim was on a Manhattan-bound Q train rumbling into the Church Ave. subway stop in Flatbush at around 6:30 a.m. when another commuter confronted him.
The suspect pulled out a sharp object and slashed the victim in the face, cops said.
Wounded and bleeding, the victim got off the train at Church Ave. and alerted police. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he was treated for a minor wound.
His attacker remained on the train, then got off at the next stop on Beverly Road, police said.
It wasn’t immediately made clear what led to the slashing.
The slasher was described as a Black man wearing a navy blue jacket, black shorts and white sneakers.
No arrests had been made as of late Saturday morning.
On Oct. 17, Justice Jackson, an emotionally disturbed homeless man with an extensive criminal history was arrested for allegedly knifing a 51-year-old man in the back during an argument on a Manhattan rush-hour subway train.
Jackson, 30, was apprehended the next day after he was identified as the assailant in the D train attack.
Cops charged Jackson with assault.
Attacks on city subways have jumped by 2% this year and over 10% within the last month, according to recent NYPD statistics.
Within the last month, NYPD Transit cops had investigated 43 assaults in the subway system, four more than the same period last year.
As of Oct. 19, cops were investigating 462 assaults in transit, nine more than last year.
However, overall crime in transit was down by 3%, officials said.
