NYPD releases images of man wanted in Upper East Side subway slashing

New York City police officers have released video of the man accused of slashing another man in the neck at a subway station on the Upper East Side this week.

It happened just before 4 a.m. Tuesday at the 96th Street 6 train station.

The victim, a 52-year-old Bronx man, said the suspect walked up to him on the No. 6 subway platform.

A verbal dispute quickly escalated and the suspect struck him with an unknown object, leaving a laceration to the right side of his neck.

The suspect, described as a man in his 30s wearing a green shirt, then fled south on Lexington Avenue.

The victim was hospitalized but was conscious and alert and said to be stable.

No arrests have been made.

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