Upper East Side Stabbing Sends Man To Hospital, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A man was hospitalized after being stabbed Friday afternoon on an Upper East Side street corner, police said.

Officers arrived to the corner of East 68th Street and Third avenue shortly after 12 p.m. to find a man suffering a stab wound to the abdomen, police said. The man was consious and alert when EMS arrived and rushed him to New York Presbyterian Hospital, an NYPD spokesman said.

The man was taken to the hospital in stable condition and is expected to survive the stabbing, an NYPD spokesman said.

The NYPD is investigating the stabbing and has not made an arrest or identified a suspect, police said.

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