2 men stabbed, slashed at Manhattan subway stations

NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – Two men were stabbed and slashed in separate subway attacks in Manhattan late Monday into Tuesday morning, police said.

The pair of assaults happened hours apart in Lower Manhattan and on the Upper East Side.

The most recent assault was on a 6-train platform of the 96th Street station early Tuesday.

Two men were fighting around 3:30 a.m. when one stabbed the other in the neck, police said.

The 52-year-old victim was transported to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition.

Hours earlier, around 5 p.m. Monday, a man was wounded aboard a moving 4 train in Lower Manhattan.

The 29-year-old victim was slashed in the arm as the train pulled into the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station.

He was transported to a hospital in stable condition.

Both suspects fled and remained at large on Tuesday.

Police were reviewing surveillance video as the investigations continued.