{"id":99314,"date":"2026-01-13T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:14:11","slug":"man-stabbed-during-clash-inside-times-square-mcdonalds-third-knifing-near-tourist-hub-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99314\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed during clash inside Times Square McDonald\u2019s \u2013 third knifing near tourist hub in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man was stabbed during a heated clash inside a Times Square McDonald\u2019s early Tuesday \u2014 marking the third person knifed near the tourist hub in a week, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An apparent stranger knifed the victim in the stomach around 5:55 a.m. inside the fast food joint on Broadway near West 45th Street, according to authorities and sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38171418\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/police-seen-scene-stabbing-1528-118829130.jpg\" alt=\"Police are seen at the scene of a stabbing at 1528 Broadway at 45th St. in Manhattan, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-38171418\"  \/>The 27-year-old victim was knifed in the stomach around 5:55 a.m. inside the eatery on Broadway near West 45th Street, according to authorities and sources.  Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wounded man was caught up in a feud with two men, one of whom was the attacker, according to the sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both assailants ran off after the bloody brawl, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The knifing came two days after another man <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/man-stabbed-in-leg-during-nyc-attack-blocks-from-times-square-cops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was knifed in the leg<\/a> during a fight in front of a Starbucks on Broadway near West 39 Street around 7:45 p.m. Sunday, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38171425\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/police-seen-scene-stabbing-1528-118829127.jpg\" alt=\"Police are seen at the scene of a stabbing at 1528 Broadway at 45th St. in Manhattan, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-38171425\"  \/>The attack marks the third knifing in the Times Square area in a week. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>And last Wednesday, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/us-news\/man-slashed-in-the-face-in-times-square-police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30-year-old man was slashed in the face<\/a> and stabbed in the back by a trio on Broadway near West 39th Street, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYPD data updated Sunday shows that so far this year, 23 felony assaults have been reported in the confines of the Midtown South precinct, which covers Times Square \u2013 even with last year\u2019s total during the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man was stabbed during a heated clash inside a Times Square McDonald\u2019s early Tuesday \u2014 marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,303,23794,57,9,56,63,65,64,2442,2027,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-99314","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-mcdonalds","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-times-square","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99314","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=99314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}