{"id":991590,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/991590\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:11:22","slug":"patient-stabbed-home-health-aide-in-fight-over-oxygen-mask-inside-posh-nyc-apartment-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/991590\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient stabbed home health aide in fight over oxygen mask inside posh NYC apartment: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ailing resident in a ritzy Upper East Side co-op building <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/08\/us-news\/stabbing-upper-east-side-apartment-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbed her home health aide<\/a> in the gut during an argument over her oxygen mask, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Salberg, 66, knifed the unidentified, 54-year-old female aide in a first-floor apartment at 210 East 73rd St., after the two argued over the mask on Saturday at about 12:30 p.m., sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>210 E. 73rd Street on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, where a home health care worker was allegedly stabbed by her 66-year-old client, on Saturday, August 8, 2026. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed by ambulance to Weill Cornell hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Salberg was slapped with charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Units in the posh building where the attack unfolded list for some eye-popping prices, with one-bedroom units in the building going for as much as $700,000, according to StreetEasy data.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of the building told The Post Saturday that he overheard the aide \u201cspeaking to what appeared to be her patient on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>The fight in the ritzy pad was allegedly sparked over an oxygen mask. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to Weill Cornell hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had just come back from running my errands and was having a cigarette and she asked me for one,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I said no, and then I heard her screaming into the phone: \u2018I do everything for you, I do your laundry, I take care of you, I take care of every little thing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ailing resident in a ritzy Upper East Side co-op building stabbed her home health aide in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":991591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,8626,67,586,132,5230,26318,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-991590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-stabbings","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-upper-east-side","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117067139229522809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991590","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=991590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}