Knife Pulled On 13-YO Aboard UWS Train, Suspect At Large: NYPD

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY - Authorities are seeking the public’s help identifying a man who pulled a knife on a 13-year-old boy on an Upper West Side train Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

The teen victim was on a southbound 1 train approaching the 66th Street-Lincoln Center station about 1:25 p.m. when a man approached and began shouting at him, police said.

The man brandished a knife and threatened to stab the boy, police said. The assailant later fled the train at the 66th Street-Lincoln Center Station.

The teen didn’t report any physical injuries as a result of the incident.

Anyone with information in regard to the incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

On Wednesday, a pregnant 25-year-old was hospitalized after she was kicked in the stomach on a Queens subway, police said.

The altercation also comes a day after a 29-year-old was punched in the face multiple times while waiting for a Q train about 11:10 p.m. at the Church Avenue station, police said. The victim was taken to an area hospital in stable condition but needed treatment for a brain bleed, police said.

Last week, a 17-year-old was punched in the face by a stranger at the Avenue P subway station on McDonald Avenue, police said.

Discussions of similar attacks have become common on social media in recent months as victims have shared stories of being randomly attacked in public.

-With reporting by Emily Rahhal.