Crime & Safety
Straphanger Stabbed Aboard 4 Train In East Harlem, Cops Say
One 4 train rider stabbed another near the 125th Street station after they got into an argument while heading uptown, police said.
NEW YORK — One straphanger stabbed another on a subway train in East Harlem Friday afternoon, police said. The two men were on an uptown 4 train near the 125th Street station when they got into an argument, according to the NYPD.
One man stabbed his fellow rider with a sharp object and then hopped off at the station at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, a Police Department spokesperson said.
The wounded man rode on to the 138th Street station in The Bronx, where medics met him and then took him to Lincoln Hospital, the spokesperson said. He is not likely to die, she said.
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The stabber is a man with a slim build standing about 6-foot-2 and wearing a black hoodie, police say. It's uncertain what kind of weapon he used.
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