Straphanger slashed in neck by stranger in latest unprovoked violence in NYC subway

Amanda Woods
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The Bergen Street station Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
A 27-year-old woman was slashed in the neck in an unprovoked attack at the Bergen Street Nos. 2 and 5 station Tuesday, cops said.

A stranger slashed a 27-year-old woman in the neck in a Brooklyn subway station — the latest unprovoked attack in the Big Apple’s troubled transit system, cops said.

The straphanger was walking down the steps of the Nos. 2 and 5 subway station at Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when a man knifed her from behind without warning, cops and sources said.

The woman, an Upper West Side resident, was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, authorities said.

A 27-year-old woman was slashed in the neck in an unprovoked attack at the Bergen Street Nos. 2 and 5 station Tuesday, cops said. MTA
A 27-year-old woman was slashed in the neck in an unprovoked attack at the Bergen Street Nos. 2 and 5 station Tuesday, cops said. MTA

The attacker ran off on foot, heading north on Bergen Street, according to cops.

He hadn’t been caught by Wednesday.

The random crime comes a week after an MTA conductor was whacked in the head with a glass bottle by a stranger in the Bronx Wednesday — also without provocation, cops said.

No arrests have been made in that assault, which happened an hour after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her plans to flood the subway system with National Guardsmen to thwart a crime surge in the city’s underground.