{"id":92685,"date":"2026-01-07T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/92685\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:24:09","slug":"woman-57-slashed-in-face-by-female-stranger-during-clash-on-nyc-train-near-grand-central-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/92685\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 57, slashed in face by female stranger during clash on NYC train near Grand Central: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A knife-wielding woman stabbed another woman in the face during a Tuesday afternoon clash on board a train pulling into Grand Central, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old victim was riding a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train approaching the 42nd Street Midtown hub around 2:10 p.m. when she got into a dispute with the attacker, who appeared to be decades her junior, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The younger woman \u2013 a complete stranger \u2013 then knifed the straphanger on the right side of her face, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 57-year-old woman was stabbed in the face during a Tuesday afternoon clash on board a train pulling into 42nd Street-Grand Central, cops said. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>An MTA worker called 911, and the victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, her alleged assailant, described as a woman in her 20s last seen wearing gray pants and a red or burgundy jacket, fled the scene, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made by Wednesday morning, and it remained unclear what the clash was over.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came days after an apparently intoxicated <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/02\/us-news\/maniac-accused-of-randomly-shoving-72-year-old-into-nyc-subway-is-russian-doctor-sources\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29-year-old medical student <\/a>hailing from Russia allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/01\/us-news\/maniac-shoves-72-year-old-man-into-moving-nyc-train-in-2026s-first-burst-of-random-subway-violence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shoved a 72-year-old man<\/a> into a moving Bronx train in an unprovoked New Year\u2019s Day attack \u2013 just hours after the ball drop, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An MTA worker called 911 to report the knifing, cops said. Robert Miller<\/p>\n<p>People seen outside Grand Central Terminal. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n<p>But during a triumphant press conference Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-jessica-tisch-announce-lowest-gun-violence-in-nyc-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city officials touted<\/a> a 4% drop in major subway crime in 2025 compared to 2024, with robberies down 12.5% \u2014 an all-time low \u2014 and shootings falling 62.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A knife-wielding woman stabbed another woman in the face during a Tuesday afternoon clash on board a train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,303,1965,57,9,56,63,65,64,2442,615,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-92685","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-crime","10":"tag-grand-central-station","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-stabbings","18":"tag-subway","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92685","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=92685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}