The daughter of the subway rider who was stabbed in the stomach after asking a raving straphanger to lower his voice pleaded for more cops to patrol the Big Apple underground.
“They’re supposed to be on the station,” the victim’s daughter told The Post on Sunday. “I don’t really see them as much anymore.”
Her 54-year-old father was heading home from his restaurant gig when he requested the stranger to stop talking loudly on his cell phone while aboard the E train at the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer station on Saturday around 11 a.m., cops and the daughter said.
The etiquette-challenged straphanger instead pummeled him in the face before knifing him in the gut, according to cops.
A 54-year-old waiter was stabbed after asking a straphanger to lower his voice while speaking on a cell phone. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post
“It’s a crazy world we live in,” the waiter’s daughter, who requested anonymity, said as her father recovers from his wounds in the hospital.
“He’s talking, he’s eating, he’s good,” she added about her dad.
The attacker fled the station and has yet to be caught. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post
The stabbing came as no surprise to one teenage subway rider.
“Unfortunately, I feel like it happens so often that it’s kind of like we are desensitized to it,” said 18-year-old Fatima Shahid inside the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer station hours after the knifing.
“It does make me feel a little unsafe.”
The attacker, meanwhile, fled the station and has yet to be caught.