Akm Shehabuddin Kisslu: A group of armed thugs slashed a 30-year-old tourist from Belgium in the face Saturday in an unprovoked attack at a Chelsea subway station, police said. In a separate incident, An Asian straphanger was slashed in the face in an unprovoked attack on the subway in Manhattan Sunday, cops said.
NYPD statistics show, Major crime in the precinct jumped 43% this year with a 200% rise in murders. There were three murders through Sept. 4 compared to 1 during the same period in 2021.
olice are trying to track down a group of armed assailants who slashed a tourist in the face at a midtown subway station, authorities said.
The group of five men ran into the woman on the stairs of the 23rd Street station on Saturday morning. Police said the attack happened around 9 a.m.
Visiting from Belgian, the woman was walking down the stairs of the subway station when one of the men slashed her across the cheek with a razor blade, police said.
The woman, in her 30s, did not go to the hospital.
The attackers approached her and cut her face, leaving her with a wound that was treated at the scene, the NYPD said.
The victim was seen talking to police after the attack with a bandage on the side of her face and neck.
“It was like a family of tourists. You could just tell they weren’t from around here. Maybe European. They were speaking English, but with an accent,” said one woman who saw the victim.
The four or five assailants set upon the victim as she walked down the southbound staircase with a group of companions at 8:43 a.m. at the A/C/E station at West 23rd street and Eighth Avenue, police said.
In another incident, An Asian straphanger was slashed in the face in an unprovoked attack on the subway in Manhattan Sunday according to police.
The 41-year-old victim was on a northbound J train as it entered the Delancey Street/Essex Street station on the Lower East Side around 8:30 a.m. when a stranger sliced his face with a razor blade, cops said.
Brendan Dowling, 39, allegedly fled the train at the station, but the victim was able to flag down police who arrested him, cops said.
Dowling was charged with assault and tampering with physical evidence, cops said. He allegedly threw the blade onto the roadbed while running away.
Dowling was last arrested Dec. 16 on criminal possession of stolen property charges after he alleged swiped construction tools from 43 Exchange Place, cops said.
