Stranger randomly slashes man leaving NYC subway station amid spate of underground violence: cops

A stranger slashed a man across the face outside a Lower East Side subway station during the Monday morning rush hour – part of a recent wave of violence in and around the city’s underground, cops said. 

The 27-year-old victim had just stepped out of the East Broadway E and F train station around 7:50 a.m. when the menace randomly approached him on Canal Street near Essex Street, police said. 

Without saying a word, the brute slashed the victim — who was waiting to cross the street — across the face before running off, authorities said. 

The victim was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital where he was listed in stable condition, police said. He needed eight stitches to close the gash, sources said.

The attacker was still on the loose hours later. 

The unprovoked assault came two days after a pair of strangers attacked two men on a Midtown subway platform — shoving one onto the tracks, cops said. 

The victims, 37 and 39, were waiting for a southbound F train at 57th Street just after 11 p.m. Saturday when they spotted the perps putting on hoodies and face masks, authorities and sources said. 

When the victims began recording the duo, the two menaces flew into a rage and confronted them before slashing the 39-year-old man on the hand, cops and sources said. 

They then pushed the 37-year-old, causing him to fall onto the roadbed, police said. 

He managed to climb back up onto the platform on his own, but suffered a cut on his elbow, according to the sources. 

Both victims were taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition. 

The attackers – shown in surveillance images released by the NYPD – appeared to be Hispanic men in their 20s, with one last seen wearing a black hoodie, black mask and purple coat.  

The other was last seen sporting a gray hoodie and orange coat. 

Hours earlier, a sicko punched a 37-year-old woman after she tried to stop him from groping her inside a Lower Manhattan subway station, cops said. 

The woman was walking up the stairs at the Canal Street A train station around 2 p.m. on Saturday when the stranger grabbed her breast over her clothing, according to cops. 

When she tried to get the creep off her, he punched her in the mouth and fled, police said. 

The NYPD released photos of the still-at-large perv, last seen wearing a black jacket, black sweatshirt, a white T-shirt, black pants and white and black sneakers.

The victim refused medical attention at the scene.

The latest attacks followed the deadly, unprovoked subway beatdown of Italian immigrant Nicola Tanzi, 64, inside the Jay Street-MetroTech station in downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday night. 

Career criminal David Mazariegos, 25, was charged with first-degree murder and ordered held on Rikers Island without bail. 

Felony assaults within the city’s transit system have seen a slight uptick so far this year, with 453 reported compared to the 445 at this time in 2024, according to the latest NYPD data, released on Sunday. 

Meanwhile, there have been four murders so far this year, compared to the eight investigated by the NYPD during the same period last year. 

And overall felony crime on the rails is down by about 4%, with 1,639 incidents reported compared to 1,706 during the same time last year, statistics show.