{"id":339623,"date":"2026-09-07T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:54:12","slug":"third-knife-attack-in-under-a-week-reported-in-times-square-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339623\/","title":{"rendered":"Third knife attack in under a week reported in Times Square \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 23-year-old man was slashed in the face and abdomen near Seventh Avenue and West 50th Street in Times Square minutes before 10:30 Saturday night, police said. The victim was recovering at NewYork-Presbyterian \/ Weill Cornell Medical Center\u00a0and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n

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NYPD officers patrol in the Times Square area after the slashing of a third person in less than a week (Image: NBC New York via Kyle Mazza).<\/p>\n

Police said the a man took off from the scene wearing a beige sweater. It was unclear whether the stabbing was over a dispute or a random act of violence.<\/p>\n

The slashing was the third knife attack in Times Square in under a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just keep my eyes out and kind of avoid eye contact with people (if) I don\u2019t really know what their vibe is,” one woman told NBC New York.<\/p>\n

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(Image: NBC New York)<\/p>\n

Word of the latest violence was nerve-wracking for some people in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely feel a little unsafe,” another tourist visiting the Times Square area said, as her friend agreed, with that visitor adding, “I feel like I should be wary of my surroundings.”<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s slashing followed a deadly stabbing in Times Square last week, where police said an emotionally disturbed person identified as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens stabbed a 68-year-old Rhode Island man.<\/p>\n

Police said Cisneros also fatally stabbed 32-year-old Bank of America vice president Erin Piacenti of Chester, New Jersey in the abdomen<\/a> as Piacenti was headed home from work.<\/p>\n

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Erin Piacenti had just returned to work after maternity leave, when she was stabbed to death in Times Square Aug. 31 (Photo obtained by NBC New York)<\/p>\n

According to a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign set up by family, it was Piacenti\u2019s first day back from maternity leave, and the fundraiser was created to support her five-month-old baby girl.<\/p>\n

Police said Cisneros later got into a standoff with officers during an encounter between 41st and 42nd streets where she wielded two knives.<\/p>\n

“The officers engaged the woman in dialogue for four minutes and gave her numerous commands to drop the knives which she refused,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Video showed officers deploying tasers on Cisneros before she charged at them. Officers then fired their service weapons, killing the 49-year-old.<\/p>\n

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The knives police say were used in the deadly stabbings in Times Square Monday that left a woman dead and a woman wounded (Image: NBC New York)<\/p>\n

In the latest slashing, police continued searching for the suspect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many people living here I think sometimes mental health priority falls under, so I think we need start prioritizing mental health a lot more than we do right now,” a Times Square visitor said.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man was slashed in the face and abdomen near Seventh Avenue and West 50th Street in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,103],"class_list":["post-339623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}