A woman was stabbed on Wednesday night around 9:30 on 107th Street and Columbus Avenue, according to NYPD. Police did not have details on what preceded the stabbing, but a spokesman said the woman is expected to survive.
This article has been updated.
Upper West Side (maybe the whole City) is getting to be just like the mid-1970’s. When it was dirty, dangerous and scary. I lived in the W. 90’s then and there were blocks that were gang-owned, Amsterdam was a mess and a female couldn’t walk alone at night. Is it DeBlasio? Is it the Trump-effect? What the hell is going on here? Stabbings in the subway on the streets. I can’t run as fast as I used to. I love this town, I love my neighborhood (now in the W. 70’s) but between aggressive homeless, thieves and wackos it’s getting pretty damn scary again.
gotta go with deblahhsio…everything he passes has to do with the criminal element in mind( closing jails,drinking and urinating in streets, pot smoking etc.)EXCEPT when the lobbyist come a running then its all about him and his cash lined pockets
Fritz said:
“gotta go with deblahhsio…everything he passes has to do with the criminal element in mind( closing jails,drinking and urinating in streets, pot smoking etc.)”
seriously? every policy of De Blasio’s is for “the criminal element”?
Such as:
— universal pre-K
— two year freeze on rent stabilized rents
— extended middle school sports and arts programs
— ending the racial profiling version of “stop and frisk”
— signing contracts with 350,000 city workers (they were working for 4-6 years without contracts under Bloomberg)
— Vision Zero street safety program
— extending mandatory paid sick leave to 500,000 more workers
— Cuomo would have never raised minimum wage w/o De Blasio pushing
— extending living wage rules to 18,000 more workers
— spread parks dept monies to outer boro parks
and so on.
but don’t let a few facts get in the way of some preconceived ideas!
oh I forgot deblahhhsios agent writes on this site
so lets all forget about
-filthy streets
-rampant homelessness
-broken cracked sidewalks & streets
-quality of life that’s pretty
much gone into the toilet
-hare-brained schemes(closing rikers and opening smaller jails in a neighborhood near you,same goes for homeless shelters among other madness)
I could go on but whats the use..you’ve already shown that he’s your hero and you want to be just like him when you grow up
hmmm… he’s excoriated both for “rampant homelessness” and for “opening homeless shelters.”
interesting logic.
For the millionth time, just about every major crime stat is steady or down, year-over-year…
Amazing the number of folks who think that, because they now actually have to SEE some homeless people, the Thunderdome is at hand.
Hope the victim recovers.
I am ok. Thanks guys I am never in any trouble . I teach kids for a living I dancing in theater and arts. I think people in New York are really aggressive and maybe the poison in the food is making the mentally unstable . And yes I was in a program housing and people in the shelters are mentally unstable and I am from Dallas Texas and I was just trying to save up money it’s so expensive here but now I would just rent out my own place I would rather spend money and struggle rather than lose and risk my life
Did you read the previous article(s) here? Maybe murder and rape stats are going down but there are still violent crimes taking place every day, in the subway and in several neighborhoods in particular.
In this particular article one kids used a bike to hit someone in the head during a robbery. This isn’t just kids being unsupervised. https://www.westsiderag.com/2017/06/21/violence-on-90th-street-fruit-vendor-robbed-newsstand-operator-in-scuffle-with-minor
“Try to stay on subject and stop ranting about stats.”
If the issue is whether the city is sliding into crime and anarchy, the stats ARE the subject. Seriously, what else could they be? Do you think your feelings actually determine the reality?
And, I’m sorry, there is violent crime everywhere. Every single part of the world. It’s always sad when it happens (athough, for some of you, it’s funny how Manhattan Valley people are only “neighbors” to be concerned for when it lets you rant about crime), but it’s inescapable. And there will always be more of it in places like the city. If you really can’t bear the thought of violent crime happening anywhere near you, honestly, even Greenwich isn’t going to do it–you need to move to the moon. And hope that you don’t take it with you.
“there are still violent crimes taking place every day, in the subway and in several neighborhoods in particular.”
Well, no kidding. EVERYWHERE has violent crime, and certainly cities do. Violent crime stats in NYC are STILL generally down (or steady). If you’re shocked and appalled that violent crime is taking place at all, truly, you need to marry a hedgie and move to Greenwich. The violence will be a lot less obvious there.
People complaining about the sudden collapse of the civilized order in the city are either (a) too lazy or dumb to bother to look at crime stats, which is frankly embarrassing, or (b) don’t care about the stats because it “feels” true, since they’re having to see Those People on the streets.
Sarah, your neighbors (and presumably some of your friends) deserve better than to be told they need to either accept violent crime in their own back yard or move to Greenwich. People have a right to safety wherever they live, and I can’t believe that you find this an acceptable solution.
“If you’re shocked and appalled that violent crime is taking place at all, truly, you need to marry a hedgie and move to Greenwich. The violence will be a lot less obvious there.”
This is a jaded New Yorker’s answer to everything isn’t it? Try to stay on subject and stop ranting about stats.
And in reality, no, violence would not be a lot less obvious in Greenwich, lol.
“Violent crime stats in NYC are STILL generally down (or steady).”
Perhaps, if you trust the official stats. I don’t. Why don’t I trust the stats? I’d provide links to articles that answer that question but then my comment would probably get deleted.
“If you’re shocked and appalled that violent crime is taking place at all, truly, you need to marry a hedgie and move to Greenwich.”
What about Chappaqua where Bill and Hillary Clinton reside? Or the part of Vermont where Bernie Sanders resides? Or any number of other specific locations where any number of other outspoken, self-righteous, “liberal” and “progressive” scolds reside?
How do the violent crime rates in /those/ areas compare to said rates in the “troubled” areas, the residents of which the aforementioned beacons of virtue offer apologetics for? (But, curiously, never actually reside among themselves.)
So all you took from jezebel’s comment was the reference to homeless people? The women beating and stabbing each other in the street weren’t homeless. Every time a stabbing or shooting is reported here it amazes me that people want to argue about who was in the right, and no one ever mentions the fact that people are clearly walking around this neighborhood armed and prepared to be violent. Are you aware that there were armed police and National Guard stationed at McDonald’s on B’way during the school year to keep the kids out because of the violence there? Once the kids were kept out of McD’s they moved over to the mall by the subway. Just because you obviously aren’t seeing it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. You can’t realistically look at everything as a ‘stat.’
See what happens when Charm School lets out for the summer…
Umm, yeah, that’s real.
Sure.
this part of the Upper West Side is host to continued violent crimes and gangs….they only strategy that has proved to work is to situate police cars along that stretch of Columbus Avenue. One cannot compare the section north of West 100 to the rest of the Upper West Side. Lets face the simple facts that the West 100s are the most impoverished tracts within the Upper West Side. A simple stone’s throw across Broadway to West End Avenue from this area exemplifies 2 worlds…..one crime-ridden and in despair and the other that is solid middle and upper class. Manhattan Valley continues to be void of opportunity, however crime and poverty it does not lack and this is something that people from Gale Brewer to Mark Levine need to look at more seriously. The deplorable conditions of this community result in violent and aggressive behaviors that would not be tolerated west of Broadway and south of West 100 Street.
Come on. I live on the edge of the neighborhood and walk through it more than daily. It is not “crime-ridden and in despair.” Any part of town with a big NYCHA project is going to have more issues and struggles than one without, because you’re concentrating people facing a lot of challenges without a lot of resources all in one place. And those people could always use more services and support (as well as not having their children treated like they somehow carry diseases every time the schools try to increase integration).
But some of you folks really need to try living in an actual downtrodden neighborhood for a couple of years to get some perspective on what real despair looks like.
“you’re concentrating people facing a lot of challenges without a lot of resources all in one place. And those people could always use more services and support”
Couldn’t the same be said for at least much of Appalachia?
How do the violent crime statistics for /that/ region compare to those for NYCHA residences?
I don’t know (although the living situation is quite different). And somehow I suspect you don’t, either, but you sure FEEL like you do. I wonder why.
amen, Sarah.
Ethel — are you exaggerating? Are you a racist? Because I pointed out just what you did, and that is what I was labeled by some WSR readers on here. Maybe my “ethnic” screen name bothers them…
UWSHebrew – do you ever post and not point out what a victim you are?
You bring a whole new category of snowflake to this blog.
I know, right? I can’t figure out if he is complaining about minorities or if he is kvetching about BEING a minority. It’s all so confusing with him.:)
These right wingers clearly are the true “snowflakes” as they are so fond of saying.
It’s hard not to appropriate the term “snowflake” when people like you whine, complain, play the vicim, and ignore personal responsibility all while using the term to describe others.
Reality is hard. I get it.
Yeah right…how many conservative’s call for speech to be censored and safe spaces. Thank God (if I can still say that) for the internet, the MSM can’t censor that.
two left-wingers who think they’re clever by appropriating “snowflake”. You guys should go meet up at the health food store and buy each other a jar of hummus dip.
I live on 90th Street & Columbus Ave. I’ve been informed by folks at Danny O’Donnell’s
office, that their is alot of gang activity
going on between the crew at the Weiss Houses
& Frederick Douglas Houses – an it has really heated up. the projects are really bad, and
getting worse, less funding for those folks.
The police are always involved in the gang
wars at those projects. The kids, or gang
members do alot of their nasty stuff on
innocent UWS folks.
How about self-funding and supporting yourself and your family? I’m all for helping people who try to help themselves, but living off of my hard work is unacceptable. Short term assistance has turned into a way of life for far too many people.
What hard work do you do, SG? Just curious – so often, those who complain about others living off their hard work have office jobs and are aiming their vitriol at those who clean toilets, empty trash, dig holes, etc., for low wages. As I remind those at my office, that lady they look down on for filling their trash probably works a lot harder than they do.
sg watch out, you’re going to make OriginalMark mad at you.
Are you stooping so low that you need to pitch people against each other?
We are all used to your negative, self-centered comments bashing who you think are “liberals” if they don’t agree with you, but this is a new low even for you.
glad you’re used to it, more to come.
I’m just curious as to why we just jump to the conclusion that this is “just like the mid-1970s” — maybe someone needs to jog your memory. A simple search on YouTube for “NYC 1970s footage” will demonstrate we are no where near those times.
And why do we automatically blame the current or previous mayor for everything?
If you view the stats here, you’ll see that many of the numbers are near, or below pre 70s stats:
https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm
The “peak” for murder, theft, etc… during the last five decades shows it to be from the late 70s through the 90s.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that perhaps we are just so “plugged-in” to social media and news outlets that we are aware of every crime that happens more than ever before? as doled out by whatever the current trend is?
For instance, rape crimes have been resistant to any fluctuation since the 1960s—in 2015, there were 4,389 reports. Divided by 5 boroughs, that’s 800 reports per year, or 2-3 rapes per DAY, per borough—yet, we’re not talking about that.
I think it’s important to think critically and analytically before jumping to conclusions or finding someone to blame. All your doing is perpetuating a false notion based on nothing, or fear mongering. Look at the numbers, the Upper West Side is hardly turning back to the times of the 70s or 80s… reality check.
I have lived with my family smack in the middle of Manhattan Valley for over 40 years. There is no comparison to what the neighborhood was like 20 years. Vast and astonishing improvement in the safety and quality of life, and yes, still lots and lots or low income and working poor people living here along with a dozen supportive housing residential facilities. MV is swarming with Columbia students who previously were wanted not to set foot south of 110th St. I check the crime
stats regularly. My kids grew up here. They still live here.
We walk everywhere, take public transportation and try to shop here as much as possible. I have been a very involved member of my community for as long as I have lived here. Most of you have no idea what you are talking about.
I think there should be “No Smoking” signs on the UWS on all the streets.
I agree with Billy
I think you should move to Singapore
Definitely getting worse each day. I am approached by the homeless at least 4 times a day. I pass druggies at least a couple of times a day. I am a tough guy. But since moving up from 64th street to 104th st and Broadway, its a different world. I would bet that many of these homeless and residents that just hang out every day are armed. For me, fine. Perhaps I can handle it. For my wife, I worry. Next year, when our rip off of a lease is up, we are moving back to the sixties. For those that think it is fine that there is some crime, keep sticking your head in the sand. One day you will regret it.
This young, tall, muscular guy (not black), approached me yesterday on 105th: “Sir can you give me a dollar so I can get something to eat”? I asked him how old he was “22”. I said “Aren’t you ashamed to ask for money? You’re a young strong guy, you could work at many places”. He replied (with his two friends giving me death stares), “all you had to do is say no sir! Bye!”. I hate this area. Lots of men roaming the streets high on drugs. As soon as I get the $ to move to a better area of Manhattan, I’m gone.
UWSH, I agree with GG. Trying to reason with those guys is a fruitless endeavor. It’s frustrating but you will get nowhere and it wouldn’t take long to escalate into something worse. Quite often I too feel compelled to engage, but it ain’t worth it – especially if I’m walking with my family. They can become unhinged in a heartbeat. But call 911 when you see an aggressive panhandler and keep the pressure on your Councilman’s office – Mark Levine in your case.
I think UWSHebrew did a brave and noble thing. I encourage him to do this every time and stand up for what is right.
Good Morning, UWSHebrew.
I know we often disagree about some social and political issues here but I would like to respectfully give you some practical advice about living here in NYC. In all seriousness, I don’t think you should be interacting with people on the streets in such a manner…for your own safety.
The real world is not the comments section of a website. It is not wise to antagonize people, strangers no less, with your political views. Seriously, I have lived in Manhattan for over a half a century and many of those years were spent in the criminal justice system. Basically what I am saying is your safety is way more important than making some political statement to a group of potentially dangerous kids.
This is Street Smarts 101, man. Just keep your head down and be happy that you get to sleep in your own bed every night. Anyway, we need you around here. Who else would we argue with and berate about political correctness, etc?
Now that’s a GoFundMe page I would support 🙂