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Elderly Woman Slashed On 6 Train Near Bleecker Street
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 25, 2016
Modified Jan 25, 2016
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The police are investigating a slashing that occurred on a Manhattan subway train this morning.
At 7:13 a.m., the NYPD says officers responded a 71-year-old who was slashed on the left side of her face. She said she was sitting on a southbound 6 train when, as it approached the Bleecker Street station, a male suddenly slashed her with an unknown object.
Both the victim and suspect got out of the train, a police spokesman said, and the suspect fled on a D train (there's the transfer to the Broadway-Lafayette D stop at Bleecker).
The victim, who suffered a four-inch laceration, was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
There appears to have been an increase in apparently random slashings in NYC recently: Last week, a man walking in the East Village needed 150 stitches after being slashed by a stranger. Earlier this month, a woman walking in Chelsea was randomly cut in the face, and in December, a student was slashed while walking to school. In November, writer David Henry Hwang was slashed in the neck in a seemingly random attack while walking in Fort Greene.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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