Metro
A stranger slashed a 27-year-old lady in the neck in a Brooklyn subway station — the latest unprovoked assault in the Big Apple’s stricken transit gadget, law enforcement officials stated.
The straphanger was once strolling down the stairs of the Nos. 2 and 5 subway station at Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope round 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when a person knifed her from in the back of with out caution, law enforcement officials and assets stated.
The lady, an Upper West Side resident, was once taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, the place she was once indexed in strong situation, government stated.
The attacker ran off on foot, heading north on Bergen Street, in keeping with law enforcement officials.
He hadn’t been stuck by Wednesday.Â
The random crime comes per week after an MTA conductor was once whacked in the top with a pitcher bottle by a stranger in the Bronx Wednesday — additionally with out provocation, law enforcement officials stated.
No arrests were made in that attack, which came about an hour after Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced her plans to flood the subway gadget with National Guardsmen to thwart a criminal offense surge in the town’s underground.