Manhattan, NY – A Chasidic man visiting from Israel is in Bellevue today after being slashed repeatedly on a Greenwich Village subway platform during the early morning hours.
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Police said that the man, who is believed to be between 50 and 60 years old and was dressed in traditional Chasidic attire, was at the Bleeker Street-Broadway Lafayette subway station when he was approached by an unidentified man at approximately 3:30 AM.
The attacker took money from the victim and slashed him on the left side of his neck, his face and his hands. The victim managed to make his way out of the subway station and onto the street where a pair of good samaritans flagged down a police car to assist the bleeding man.
The victim, who does not speak English, was transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Police said that they believe the man is Yiddish speaking and are in the process of locating an interpreter.
Detectives from the 9th Precinct followed a bloody trail from the street to the north end of the southbound platform of the number 6 train. Police recovered what is described as a bloody knife handle at the scene. The suspect is being described as an adult black male with dreadlocks, dressed in a brown jacket.
Eyewitnesses are currently being interviewed by police who are investigating the incident to determine if it will be treated as a hate crime. Trains on the 6 line bypassed the Bleeker Street station this morning as police continued their investigation.
what was he doing in the area at that hour?
This story will soon be forgotten but when a Haman hangs in monsey.. OH NO!!!!
He should have a refuah shelamah….While not many young people speak Yiddish anymore, it shouldn’t be that difficult in NYC to find someone who speaks Yiddish in lower Manhattan. If not, plenty of Yiddish speakers in Monsey or Brooklyn.
i am sure he speaks Hebrew as well.
NYC Subway is not safe. You have homeless people living there. You don’t go on a train at 3 AM, you are courting trouble. Refuah Sheleima
“black male with dreadlocks” I cannot believe someone with the desc. is capable of committing a violent crime, I recall Trayvon Martin the whole Obama apology “if I had a son he would’ve looked like Trayvon”.
How did someone get to be 60 in America knowing nothing but Yiddish!
you dont have to be in Israel to get slashed, welcome to New York
Seems it would be very easy for the NYPD to do something about subway crime. Just dress their plainclothes cops as Yidden and have them stand on deserted subway platforms, and they would have wave after waves of arrests made.
Someone should have told him NYC is not Bnei Berak.