A 51-year-old man riding a D train through Manhattan during rush hour on Thursday was stabbed in the back during an argument with another straphanger, cops said.
The early-morning attack was the fourth stabbing to happen in Manhattan since Monday, cops said. It was also the second to happen either in or right outside a Manhattan train station.
The victim was on a Brooklyn-bound train as it rumbled into the W. Fourth St. station in Greenwich Village around 7:30 a.m. when he got into a fight with the other passenger, who was wearing dark-gray sweatpants, a black shirt and black slippers, cops said.
During the fight, the suspect pulled a knife and jammed it into the man’s back.
Wounded, the victim stumbled off the train when the doors opened at W. Fourth St. His attacker remained on the subway as it headed downtown.
The victim was conscious and talking to police when EMS rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
No arrests have been made.
The disturbing underground attack comes in the wake of an assault outside a Lower East Side subway station Monday by an alleged assailant with an extensive criminal history.
Demitri Marshall, 32, was taken into custody around 5:30 p.m. Monday, less than 12 hours after he attacked a 27-year-old man outside the East Broadway station near Canal and Essex Sts., authorities charged.
On Tuesday, a 41-year-old man was knifed in the back on W. 49th St. and Eighth Ave. in Hell’s Kitchen.
The still at-large assailant slashed the victim on the left side of his back around 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. EMS rushed the injured man to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
In a separate incident, a 22-year-old man was stabbed in the back near the corner of E. 53rd St. and First Ave. around 12:40 a.m. Wednesday. He was rushed to Cornell Hospital and was in stable condition.
No arrests have been made.
As of Oct. 12, assaults in the city were down by less than 1% for the year to date, officials said. Cops have investigated 23,397 assaults this year, 126 fewer than at this time last year, according to NYPD statistics.
