{"id":305377,"date":"2025-10-15T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305377\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:52:26","slug":"police-investigate-stabbing-at-w49th-street-on-tuesday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305377\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigate Stabbing at W49th Street on Tuesday Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 41-year-old man was stabbed at the corner of W49th Street and 8th Avenue just before 9pm on Tuesday night, prompting an NYPD Level 1 mobilization in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"761\" data-attachment-id=\"118239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/stabbing-worldwide-plaza\/stabbing-worldwide-plaza-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-2.png?fit=2486%2C1514&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2486,1514\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stabbing Worldwide Plaza 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-2.png?fit=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-2.png?fit=1200%2C731&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-2.png\" alt=\"Stabbing Worldwide Plaza\" class=\"wp-image-118239\"  \/>Police at the scene of Tuesday evening\u2019s stabbing at W49th Street and 8th Avenue. Photo: Luke2\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Midtown North responded to a 911 call at 8:49pm and found the victim with a single stab wound to the left side of his back. He was taken by EMS to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Bellevue, where police said he was conscious, alert and in stable condition. He is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports indicated that the suspect fled west along W49th Street toward 9th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene showed the southeast corner of Worldwide Plaza, including the entrance to the W50th Street subway station, cordoned off with police tape as officers investigated the crime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"694\" data-attachment-id=\"118238\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/stabbing-worldwide-plaza\/stabbing-worldwide-plaza-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-1-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1421&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1421\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stabbing Worldwide Plaza 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-1-scaled.png?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-1-scaled.png?fit=1200%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stabbing-Worldwide-Plaza-1.png\" alt=\"Stabbing Worldwide Plaza\" class=\"wp-image-118238\"  \/>Police taped off the south east corner around Worldwide Plaza after the stabbing on Tuesday evening. Photo: Luke2\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man was stabbed at the corner of W49th Street and 8th Avenue just before 9pm on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-305377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115378281019135668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}