Four masked muggers wearing all black stabbed a 15-year-old boy they didn’t know in a robbery in Hell’s Kitchen during Monday’s evening rush, cops and law-enforcement sources said.

The callous crew approached the teen around 5:20 p.m. on West 51st Street near 10th Avenue in Manhattan and knifed him twice in the lower back during the vicious crime, police said. 

New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical CenterThe victim was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he’s listed in stable condition. Robert Miller

A general view of police line do not cross tape or police tape or crime scene tape at the scene of a police involved shooting in New York, NY as seen on November 13, 2025. The masked attackers stabbed the teen twice in the back and took off with his backpack and cell phone, cops and sources said. Christopher Sadowski

The thugs grabbed the victim’s cell phone and backpack and fled, authorities said.

The teen victim was rushed by EMS to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he’s listed in stable condition, cops said. 

The band of robbers are still in the wind, sources said.