An off-duty MTA employee was stabbed on a subway platform in the Bronx on Thursday morning in the latest violent incident on the city’s troubled transit system, police and sources said.
The 47-year-old worker was on his way to work at the Pelham Parkway Station around 6:10 a.m. when an unidentified man stabbed him in the armpit following a verbal dispute, according to police and sources.
The victim was rushed to Jacobi hospital in stable condition, cops said.
The attack took place in Pelham Parkway Station in the Bronx.
The attacker, described as a man in his 50s or 60s in a black hoodie and black pants, fled the station to parts unknown, police said.
The Big Apple’s subway system in has been plagued by violence in recent weeks — most notably the murder of a New Jersey woman who was set on fire by an illegal immigrant while she was asleep on an F train on Coney Island last week.
Thursday’s incident comes just days after two people, a 48-year-old man and 52-year-old man, were slashed Sunday night in separate attacks.
The violence has gotten so out of hand that the Guardian Angels announced they would return to patrolling Big Apple subway cars for the first time since 2020.
As of Sunday, 573 felony assaults have been reported in the city’s transit system in 2024 — nearly even with the 572 investigated by police during the same period in 2023, according to the latest data from NYPD.
