{"id":461268,"date":"2025-12-21T02:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:07:20","slug":"nyc-subway-knife-attacks-surge-100-in-single-day-as-two-stabbed-on-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461268\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC subway knife attacks surge 100% in single day as two stabbed on trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayhem gripped New York City\u2019s subways as a man and teen boy were stabbed while riding trains Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old man was stabbed in the torso at Grand Central Station while riding a southbound 6 train around 5 p.m., police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was hospitalized in Bellevue and is in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37984383\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/people-walk-grand-central-station-117454009.jpg\" alt=\"People walking through Grand Central Station in Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-37984383\"  \/>A man was stabbed on the subway at Grand Central Station.  AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are searching for a suspect who was dressed in all gray attire and was wearing a beanie hat.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect and the victim were having a dispute prior to the attack, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Around an hour later at 6:11 pm there was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/16\/us-news\/jews-attacked-on-nyc-subway-nypd-investigating-as-hate-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a separate attack<\/a> on the ACE line. A 15-year-old boy was slashed in the arm by another teen wearing a brown jacket at the 42nd Street stop.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks come after a man was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/20\/us-news\/man-stabbed-in-back-by-stranger-in-nyc-subway-second-this-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stabbed in the back<\/a> while waiting for a train on the Upper West Side Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37984382\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/criminal-knife-weapon-hidden-behind-117670956.jpg\" alt=\"Stabber\" class=\"wp-image-37984382\"  \/>A teenager was also stabbed on the ACE line.  Brian Jackson \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was waiting on the northbound 1 train at 96th and Broadway around 7pm when a stranger plunged his blade into his back after the two had an argument.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Mt. Sinai-Morningside Hospital in stable condition, and was likely to survive police sources said. The cops recovered the knife on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was said to be a light-skinned male with a slim build who fled to the street level, cops said. <\/p>\n<p>There have now been four knife attacks on NYC subways this month.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/us-news\/hochul-commits-77m-for-nypd-subway-cops-next-year-as-mamdani-pushes-mental-health-teams-in-transit-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged $77 million<\/a> to keep NYPD cops in the subway system in 2026 Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Subway crime has dipped to its lowest level in 16 years and overall transit crime is 15% lower than it was in 2019, Hochul crowed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayhem gripped New York City\u2019s subways as a man and teen boy were stabbed while riding trains Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12938,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,8626,28715,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-461268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-attacks","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-stabbings","18":"tag-subways","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115755119834908169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461268","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=461268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}