Crime & Safety
Man Stabbed On Upper West Side Train After Argument: Police
A subway rider was stabbed Thursday evening while riding a train at West 72nd Street, police said. He was hospitalized in stable condition.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A man was stabbed Thursday evening in an Upper West Side train station after an argument broke out with another passenger, police said.
The attacker knifed the 62-year-old man in the stomach around 5:33 p.m. as he stepped off a 2 train onto the West 72nd Street and Broadway subway platform, police said.
The two, who did not know each other, were having an argument about an unknown subject, police said.
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The attacker proceeded to run out of the station with the injured man chasing him, police said.
There has been no arrest as of Friday morning.
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Emergency services took the 62-year-old to St. Luke's hospital in stable condition, police said.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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