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Subway slashing attack in Midtown being investigated as anti-gay hate crime
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Giulia Heyward
Published Mar 3, 2024
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A Friday attack on the subway in Manhattan in which a male commuter was cut by a man wielding a box cutter and making “anti-gay statements” is being investigated as a hate crime, the NYPD said Sunday.
The 27-year-old victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was treated for defensive hand wounds, police said. He was on a northbound A train approaching Penn Station when he was attacked by an unknown assailant, who then fled.
The attack followed a separate assault about 3:40 a.m. Thursday in which a subway conductor was slashed in the neck on Thursday. The conductor, who received numerous stitches, had been operating a southbound A train pulling into the Fulton Street and Rockaway Avenue Station in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Train service on the A and C lines was severely delayed later Thursday, with MTA officials blaming a slowdown by union members demanding safer working conditions.
Suspects in both attacks remain at large.
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Giulia Heyward
Giulia Heyward is a breaking news reporter on the Day-Of desk. She previously worked at NPR, as a breaking news reporter, and the New York Times, as a reporting fellow on the national desk. Her work has also appeared in CNN, The Atlantic and Politico. Got a tip? Email [email protected] or more securely on signal at 917-715-1458.
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