{"id":40782,"date":"2025-11-15T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:43:08","slug":"victim-stabbed-twice-in-times-square-nyc-in-broad-daylight-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40782\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim stabbed twice in Times Square NYC in broad daylight, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An apparently homeless man was stabbed twice in the middle of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/06\/us-news\/teen-slashed-in-times-square-attack-by-stranger-who-asked-if-he-belonged-to-a-gang-cops-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times Square<\/a> Saturday \u2014 yelling \u201csave the children\u201d while bleeding profusely after the attack, cops and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old victim was outside 1501 Broadway, which houses Raising Cane\u2019s Chicken Fingers and other restaurants, at West 44th Street in the Crossroads of the World when the attacker plunged a knife into his left ribs and arm around 11:40 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A vendor said the victim was shirtless, bleeding from his chest and yelling repeatedly after he was injured.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37676958\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nocember-15-person-stabbed-outside-115483701.jpg\" alt=\"Police and bystanders behind yellow tape with suspected bloodstains on the ground in Times Square.\" class=\"wp-image-37676958\"  \/>A man was stabbed outside Raising Cane\u2019s Chicken in Times Square Saturday, cops said. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n<p>The victim, whose identity wasn\u2019t released, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said. He was \u201chighly uncooperative\u201d and police weren\u2019t sure what led up to the assault, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker took off in an unknown direction and was described as wearing a black jacket and dark pants, cops said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37676964\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nocember-15-person-stabbed-outside-115483705.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people, police, taxis, and cars near a newsstand and a cordoned-off area on a city street.\" class=\"wp-image-37676964\"  \/>The attacker fled from the scene of the stabbing and the victim was uncooperative, cops said. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n<p>Blood pooled on the sidewalk outside Raising Cane\u2019s after the bloody stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Felony assaults have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/31\/us-news\/assaults-on-nypd-officers-surge-63-over-six-years-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot up<\/a> 25% in the 13th Precinct (Midtown South) so far this year to 256 from 205 at the same time last year, NYPD data show.<\/p>\n<p>Felony assaults citywide are down 0.2% citywide. Major crime is down 3% citywide so far this year over last, according to the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apparently homeless man was stabbed twice in the middle of Times Square Saturday \u2014 yelling \u201csave the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,2442,2027,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-40782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-stabbings","17":"tag-times-square","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782","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=40782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}