Danish tourist, 55, slashed in face on Upper West Side: NYPD

A 55-year-old tourer was slashed successful the look connected the Upper West Side Wednesday greeting successful different startling Manhattan thoroughfare attack, constabulary said.

Police said the victim, who is visiting present from Denmark, was assaulted astatine astir 10:23 a.m. adjacent W. 86th St. and Columbus Ave.

A idiosyncratic cleans up humor from a unfortunate of a slashing connected W. 86th St. successful Manhattan connected Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)

The unfortunate was taken by medics to Mount Sinai Morningside successful unchangeable condition.

A surveillance video of the incidental shows 3 men walking by. Soon aft they walk retired of the video frame, a young antheral clutching a leaf is seen moving furiously aft them and past he, too, disappears retired of the frame. The attacker past reappears successful the video frame, appears to outcry thing angrily backmost toward his unfortunate and past runs disconnected successful the absorption from which helium came.

The attacker is being sought by police. He was described arsenic white, with acheronian curly hairsbreadth and a afloat beard and was wearing a grey T-shirt, acheronian shorts and light-colored sneakers.

Blood and improvised bandages and insubstantial towels are pictured aft a slashing connected W. 86th St. successful Manhattan connected Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)

On Monday, three radical were stabbed to death successful a horrifying drawstring of unprovoked attacks successful Manhattan, spanning from Chelsea to Kips Bay to adjacent the United Nations. Ramon Rivera, 51, has been charged with execution successful each of those 3 attacks.

An NYPD serviceman guards the transgression country of a slashing connected W. 86th St. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)

Originally Published: November 20, 2024 astatine 2:31 PM EST