NY Post – At least five people were hurt during a violent stretch for the city’s subway system that included slashings, stabbings and a beating, cops said – as the NYPD touted double-digit decreases in transit crime last month.
In the most recent burst of violence, a man was slashed on his hand as he tried to disarm a knife-wielding woman on board a No. 4 train at East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem Wednesday morning, cops and sources said.
The 21-year-old woman and 43-year-old man, who do not know each other, started arguing on the train around 6:40 a.m., cops said.
The woman flashed a knife, and the two scuffled as the man tried to disarm her, authorities said.
The dust-up left the woman with a cut on her left elbow, and the man with a slash wound to a finger on his left hand, police said.
The woman was transported to Harlem Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. She was also taken into police custody, with charges pending, authorities said.
The man was treated on scene for his injury, cops said.
In a Tuesday afternoon attack, a stranger punched and stabbed a 29-year-old straphanger over an accidental bump on board a train passing through Midtown, police and sources said.
The victim bumped into 23-year old Shemar Shaw on board a southbound M train at the 47–50 Streets/Rockefeller Center station just after 2 p.m. when the menace flew into a rage …
