Christmas crimes in the New York Subway: stabbing of a young man and abuse of a woman

Not even Christmas marked a pause in the chaotic New York Subway, where a young man was stabbed in the middle of a robbery and a woman was sexually assaulted in the last hours.

First, a 23-year-old man was stabbed in a subway station in Times Square on Saturday the 23rd. The crime occurred shortly after 9 pm at the A/C/E station at 42nd and 8th Avenue. The NYPD said the attacker approached the young man, tried to take his cell phone amid a verbal dispute and stabbed him in the torso. He then fled the scene, leaving his victim bleeding.

The injured man was transported to NYC Health and Hospitals/Bellevue in stable condition. The fleeing suspect was described as a light-skinned man, 5 feet 5 inches tall, wearing black pants and a white T-shirt with gold letters that read “Legend,” he described. FoxNews.

Previously, on the night of Friday the 22nd, a young man sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman inside the mezzanine of the M Line Subway station on Central Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

NYPD officers received the call at approximately 7:35 pm after the suspect inappropriately touched the woman before leaving the station, but she managed to escape and the alleged pervert fled.

Since taking office in January 2022, Mayor Eric Adams, former NYPD, announced several times that the number of NYPD officers in the subway system would be doubled in a beefed-up security plan to address violence in the chaotic NYC Subway. But so far the incidents have continued.

No arrests have been made in these cases. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.