{"id":823992,"date":"2026-05-26T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/823992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:48:31","slug":"2-teens-stabbed-wounded-during-brutal-nyc-fight-with-5-strangers-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/823992\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens stabbed, wounded during brutal NYC fight with 5 strangers: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teens were stabbed \u2013 one repeatedly \u2013 during a brutal fight with five strangers in Queens Monday night, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the head, neck and back, while an 18-year-old boy was knifed in the face around 8:30 p.m. in front of an apartment building on 31st Avenue near 45th Street in Astoria, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The younger boy was taken to Harlem Hospital, and the older victim to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where both were listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39492460\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/purchased-spec-last-nights-double-128770829.jpg\" alt=\"The teens were stabbed around 8:30 p.m. in front of an apartment building on 31st Avenue near 45th Street in Astoria, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-39492460\"  \/>The teens were stabbed around 8:30 p.m. in front of an apartment building on 31st Avenue near 45th Street in Astoria, cops said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The brawl erupted when five violent suspects approached the pair, at least three of them described as males, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victims did not know their attackers, though it was not immediately clear what sparked the fight, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made by Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39492466\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/purchased-spec-last-nights-double-128770830.jpg\" alt=\"The younger victim, 16, was stabbed in the head, neck and back, while the 18-year-old was knifed in the face, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-39492466\"  \/>The younger victim, 16, was stabbed in the head, neck and back, while the 18-year-old was knifed in the face, cops said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The knifing came less than a week after a 15-year-old boy <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/us-news\/boy-15-stabbed-by-crew-of-would-be-robbers-on-board-nyc-train-cops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was stabbed<\/a> on board a Bronx train when a five-person crew tried to rob him and his friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was knifed on the left side of the torso and hospitalized in stable condition, while his pal was not hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teens were stabbed \u2013 one repeatedly \u2013 during a brutal fight with five strangers in Queens Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":823993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,21606,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,8626,3981,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-823992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-astoria","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-stabbings","tag-teens","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116642848672383126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823992","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=823992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}