Crime & Safety
NYC Christmas Crimes: Subway Stabbing, Car Crash Knife Fight
Peace and goodwill didn't extend to all New Yorkers over the Christmas holiday.

NEW YORK CITY — Christmas comes but once a year, but crime in New York City doesn't stop for holiday cheer.
Stabbings unfolded on the subway, a knife fight followed a fender bender and a 23-year-man was fatally shot over Christmas Eve and Christmas, according to police and reports.
Two girls, 14 and 16, were stabbed Christmas morning inside Grand Central Station's dining concourse, the New York Post first reported.
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Both suffered non-life threatening wounds and transit cops arrested a 36-year-old man in the attack, the Post reported.
The stabbing wasn't the only Christmas transit knifing.
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A 44-year-old man was stabbed multiple times during an argument Christmas Eve inside the Mosholu Parkway train station in The Bronx, NYPD officials said.
The straphanger was confronted by five people, who accused him of bumping a woman with his backpack, the New York Daily News first reported.
An argument erupted, and the straphanger was pummeled and stabbed before his attackers took his phone, police said. He was taken to a local hospital in stable condition, authorities said.
Police seek help identifying four people, three men and one woman, involved in the attack.
Knives also loomed large in a Christmas morning fender bend in Queens, according to a report.
Two groups of men argued after a crash in at Ninth Avenue and 125th Street in College Point before one of them drew a knife, the New York Daily News first reported.
A melee unfolded that left the knife-drawing man bloodied with several stab wounds, the Daily News reported.
And, finally, a 23-year-old man was fatally shot Christmas Eve near a NYCHA building in Harlem, police said.
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