A man was slashed across the face on the stairwell of an elevated Bronx subway station early Saturday – the 11th victim in a chilling spate of city subway slashings this year, police sources said.
The 32-year-old man was walking down the stairway of the East Tremont and Boston Post Road subway station on the No. 2 and 5 lines while texting when two men had some kind of dispute with him at around 4:40 a.m., sources said.
“The victim is trying to talk to one and he expresses he’s not interested in having a conversation with the guy,” a source said, adding that “it may have been flirtation.”
The unidentified victim told police that three continued down the stairway and then he suddenly felt a slap to his face, but quickly realized he had been slashed after the suspects fled, according to sources.
He was taken to St. Barnabus Hospital in stable condition.
The incident comes following a series of slashings in the subways that have left commuters on high alert.
In response to the spike in subway crimes, the NYPD has vowed to dispatch more officers – both uniformed and plainclothes – in the subways.
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