Man Stabbed On Upper East Side Street, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A man was stabbed on a busy Upper East Side street corner in broad daylight Thursday afternoon, according to police — leaving blood splattered on the sidewalk.

The 29-year-old man was stabbed in the arm near the southwest corner of East 63rd Street and Third Avenue just after 2 p.m., an NYPD spokesperson said.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital and was expected to survive, police said.

The suspect is described as a man in his thirties, wearing all black clothing and a black face mask. He fled downtown on foot along Third Avenue after the attack, police said.

Police had no details about what led to the stabbing, and it was unclear whether the two men knew each other.

A witness photo appeared to show blood covering the sidewalk on the corner of Third Avenue, just outside an entrance to the F-Q train subway station.

Ethan B. Van Buskirk, who took the photo, told Patch that police were just starting to cordon off the crime scene at around 2:05 p.m. A handful of police cars had gathered, with "a lot of confusion" in the area, he said.

Videos posted to the Citizen app showed a large police presence at the intersection of Third Avenue. The NYPD's 19th Precinct asked the public to avoid the area, saying in a tweet that a police investigation was active on the corner.

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