Man, 20, slashed in Penn Station as city sends more cops to subway system

A 20-year-old antheral was slashed with a container cutter during a combat with an older antheral connected a subway bid entering Penn Station, MTA officials said Saturday.

The onslaught comes conscionable a time aft Gov. Hochul vowed to enactment constabulary connected each overnight subway bid successful the system.

The 2 men were connected the No. 2 bid entering the Midtown transit hub astatine astir 8 p.m. Friday erstwhile the two men got into an statement with each other, officials said.

The disagreement rapidly became heated and the 20-year-old antheral punched his 45-year-old rival successful the face, according to an MTA spokesman.

The older antheral rapidly retaliated and whipped retired a container cutter, slashing his unfortunate successful the enarthrosis and manus arsenic the bid entered the presumption and the combat continued onto the platform.

MTA constabulary rapidly arrested some men. Criminal charges were pending Saturday.

Cops temporarily unopen down bid work arsenic they took the 2 men into custody and rendered aesculapian aid.

“They unopen down the full thing,” an MTA cleaner told the Daily News Friday night. “One feline stabbed the different 1 and the constabulary arrested him. There was humor each over. It was a batch to cleanable up.”

The container cutter was recovered connected the level of the subway car.

The bloody combat occurred a time aft Gov. Hochul announced she was going to enactment two constabulary officers connected each overnight subway train starting Monday.

The plan, which Hochul archetypal announced successful her State of the State address earlier this week, is meant to bolster the visibility of instrumentality enforcement officers connected metropolis wide transit for the adjacent six months.

Governor Hochul makes a subway information announcement Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, successful Manhattan, New York. (Office of the Governor)

“People privation to spot constabulary officers connected the trains and successful the stations,” she told reporters connected Thursday.

Starting Monday, the archetypal signifier of the program volition rotation retired overnight from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., erstwhile 100 officers volition beryllium deployed to patrol the trains.

“Additional phases volition beryllium rolled retired implicit the coming weeks with the anticipation that the afloat cognition volition beryllium implicit by the extremity of the month,” said an NYPD spokesperson. “This is simply a monolithic undertaking that involves specialized grooming arsenic good arsenic logistics and assets management. We admit the governor’s enactment successful keeping New Yorkers safe.”

The surge comes connected apical of 1,000 National Guard soldiers deployed to the strategy by Hochul past year, positive astatine slightest 250 authorities police. Unlike authorities and section police, the National Guard has nary authorization to marque arrests successful the subway system.

Ten radical were murdered successful the New York City subway strategy past twelvemonth — including the recent, random and gruesome immolation of a stateless New Jersey woman asleep connected a Brooklyn bid — up from 5 murders successful 2023.