Teen Slashed On Upper East Side Subway Platform, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A teenager was slashed inside an Upper East Side subway station Wednesday night in a seemingly random attack, police told Patch.

A 16-year-old boy was standing on a platform at the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue station around 7:45 p.m. when he was approached by an unknown male and slashed across the face with a sharp object, an NYPD spokesman said.

The teen suffered serious injuries and was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition, police told Patch. Immediately following the slashing the teen ran into a Bloomingdale's store attached to the subway station for help, witnesses told Eyewitness News.

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The slasher fled the scene in an unknown direction and remains at large, an NYPD spokesman said. The NYPD investigation into the attack is ongoing, but not much is known about the suspect other than he's a man, police told Patch.

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