A 38-year-old man was stabbed early Sunday morning at the Third Avenue and 138th Street No. 6 subway station in the Bronx, just hours after New York City’s congestion pricing went into effect, pushing more commuters into the subway system.
Police said the man was slashed in the arm around 4 a.m. and was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition. The suspect fled the scene, and authorities have not determined if the victim and the attacker knew each other or what led to the assault.
The incident follows a week of escalating subway violence. Days earlier, 57-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms River, NJ, died in a shocking arson attack at Brooklyn’s Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station. Illegal migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to her death.
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Since then, at least five additional subway attacks have been reported. These include the stabbing of an MTA employee at the Pelham Parkway station and multiple slashing incidents at stations in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Victims were attacked at Myrtle-Wyckoff, West 50th Street, 110th Street, and 14th Street stations, suffering injuries to their arms, necks, and backs.
A man was stabbed in a NYC Bronx MTA train station early Sunday, mere hours after congestion pricing went into effect, forcing more New Yorkers into the increasingly violent subway system.
The 38-year-old man was stabbed in the arm inside the Bronx Third Avenue and 138th Street… pic.twitter.com/T2Zb6xb5uV
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In a separate incident on Tuesday, music programmer Joseph Lynskey, 45, narrowly survived after being pushed in front of a No. 1 train in Manhattan.
Yes, there are teachers I work with in Queens that no subway goes to and they live in the Bronx so now they’re paying not only the congestion tax but bridge taxes as well. It’s absurd.
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The rising violence has prompted the Guardian Angels, a volunteer group that monitors the subway, to resume patrols at levels not seen since the 1970s. The group had scaled back its operations in 2020 but is now stepping up efforts to address safety concerns.
Critics of congestion pricing argue the policy has compounded safety issues by increasing reliance on an already strained and dangerous transit system.
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