A man was slashed in the face on a Manhattan subway platform early Sunday– the sixth such attack in the transit system in less than a month, police sources said.
The 27-year-old man got into a fight with the woman around 3 a.m. on the southbound platform on the No. 2 subway at W. 110th St. and Lenox Ave. just north of Central Park, the sources said.
The woman summoned another man, who slashed the victim in the face with a sharp object, the sources said. No weapon was recovered.
The victim was taken to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital.
The slashing brings the total number to six so far this year in subway system, NYPD officials said.
They include a Jan. 25 incident in which Carmen Rivera, 71, of Brooklyn was slashed across her face by Damon Knowles, 21, while riding a D train in Greenwich Village.
The following day, Natalie Lewis, 29, was sliced on the hand while riding a 3 train in Brooklyn after a bumping incident around 9:30 p.m. Ras Alula Nagarit, 37, was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing in the attack at the Atlantic Avenue/Barclays Center station. He allegedly yelled, “I will chop you up.”
Also that day, Christopher Santiago, 32, of the Bronx was cut while riding a 6 train near the 116th Street station in East Harlem around 9:40 p.m. Police officials said he wasn’t cooperating with their investigation.
Meanwhile, outside the subway, a Bronx grand jury indicted Kari Bazemore on assault charges in the Dec. 31 slashing of a woman in Mott Haven. Bazemore also is charged with slashing Amanda Morris who was walking to work in Chelsea on Jan. 6.
Francis Salud, 28, also was indicted Wednesday for allegedly slicing a man in the face on Jan. 16 in the East Village. He had been released on bail after an earlier slashing outside Bellevue Hospital in Midtown.