A man was stabbed on the Union Square subway platform Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It all started on a northbound L train at around 10 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said the two people involved had an argument on the train that turned physical and spilled onto the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim, 45, was stabbed in the back repeatedly, police said. He’s expected to survive. Police say his coat may have prevented serious injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police recovered a knife at the scene, but have not yet found a suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The attack has straphangers discussing subway safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“People are getting threatened. People are threatening people. And unfortunately it’s just not a series of events that should occur with regularity,” one man said. “It’s definitely an issue and it continues to be something you, as an individual, have to be vigilant about.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stabbing comes as the NYPD recently touted a drop in overall subway crime last month. Police said statistics show a nearly 25% drop in transit crime in November, “making it the safest November in recorded history,” outside of the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was stabbed on the Union Square subway platform Wednesday morning.\u00a0 It all started on a northbound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,615,6018],"class_list":{"0":"post-67025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-subway","12":"tag-union-square"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67025","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=67025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}