Around two weeks after an as-yet unidentified human leg was discovered near the 167th Street (Yankee Stadium) subway station on the elevated track tracks in the Concourse section of The Bronx on Saturday, Feb. 17, a 60-year-old male subway rider has survived a stabbing to the abdomen aboard a subway at the same station.

 

Police said the stabbing occurred on a southbound 4 train at the 167th Street subway station at around 3.07 p.m. amid a dispute. They said EMS responded to the scene and transported the victim to NYC Health and Hospitals/ Lincoln in stable condition. They said officers had been patrolling the location at the time the incident and were alerted to it by a passenger inside the station.

 

They said there are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing. We asked police if the victim and the perpetrator knew each other and if a description of the perpetrator was available. We did not receive an immediate response.

The latest Bronx subway attack comes one week after Wiliam AI Alvarez from Parkchester was killed (assaulted and shot) aboard the D train at 182nd-183rd Street subway station in Fordham Heights in the early hours of Friday, Feb. 23, and that incident followed a previous multiple subway shooting at Mt. Eden subway station, also on the 4 line, on Feb. 13, resulting in multiple injuries.

 

The series of events has prompted City officials to attempt to reassure New Yorkers that the subway is still safe to ride on for the majority of the City’s residents.

 

Three people from Bedford Park have been arrested in connection with the D train shooting, as reported.

Police officers were seen patroling the 4 train and different Bronx subway stations late on Friday night (March 1). They were also seen outside 167th Street subway station late on Friday, seemingly addressing a separate incident involving a vehicle.

 

We asked nearby business employees if they had seen or heard anything about the stabbing earler that day and none had as they were either not working at the time or were busy working inside and just saw police arrive and enter the station.

One business owner we spoke to lamented that there were no cameras at 167th Street Subway Station. As reported, this point had been addressed by the MTA following the D train killing at 182nd-183rd Street subway station.

 

Janno Lieber, MTA chair and CEO, had said, in part, that he he had spoken to Gov. Kathy Holchul about the D train incident, since the MTA falls under the responsibility of NY State, rather than directly under New York City. “One thing that is also important to note is that her initiative to put cameras in every subway car actually paid off in this case, that this whole incident was recorded on a camera that was inside the subway car as a result of the ‘Cops, Cameras, Care’ initiative that Gov. Hochul started with Mayor Adams’ support last year,” Lieber said in reference to the D train incident.

He went on to say that work was ongoing to install a camera in “every last car in the subway system.” Lieber continued, “In this case, it paid off and I hope and I’m confident that that’s going to help the investigation. It can’t minimize what happened today, but we are determined and we are hopeful that we’re going to make the subway system as safe as it needs to be and feel as safe as it should be for all New Yorkers.”

 

Law enforcement officials said media reports that the human leg found on the elevated subway tracks near 167th Street subway station on Feb. 17 may belong to a man who was fatally struck by a train at Spring Street station in Manhattan on Feb. 12 are unconfirmed and await the results of the findings of the City’s medical examiner. We will share any updates we receive.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on Twitter @NYPDTips.

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