By Gus Saltonstall
A man was stabbed and a woman was assaulted in separate incidents Halloween night on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
The first incident happened shortly before 8 p.m. on Friday, when a 17-year-old boy assaulted a woman at 289 Columbus Avenue, between West 73rd and 74th streets, police said. The NYPD spokesperson did not have additional details as of Saturday morning about the assault, but the woman was taken to Mount Sinai West, police said.
The teenager fled south on Columbus Avenue, NYPD added. There have been no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.
Around two hours later at 10 p.m., a 42-year-old man was stabbed in the shoulder near West 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, police said. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he is expected to survive, police said.
A person was taken into custody at the scene on Friday night related to the stabbing, but there has not been an arrest made, according to police. The motive of the stabbing is unclear as of Saturday morning.
The investigation also remains ongoing.
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If the 17 year old who stabbed the woman south on Columbus Avenue, and there have been no arrests hiw do we know he’s 17? Obviously he is known either to the woman or to a witness. Why not give out his name? Sure, he’s only 17 but he stabs people are we shoild all be wary of him.
That’s the first thing I thought of. How do you know the assailant’s age? How do you even know he was a teenager?
me too!
*assaults people …
…then he doesn’t deserve anonymity
_allegedly_ “assaults people…”
You do know that there’s a presumption of innocence (until proven guilty) as part of due process and protected by the Fifth Amendment, don’t you?
Should we also presume that the victim wasn’t stabbed?
Read it again. There were two separate incidents, an assault committed by a 17-year-old on Columbus and a stabbing on Amsterdam committed by someone else.
He will be out the same day
The stabbing occurred uptown I believe?
We need more cops, more cameras, more policing.
We need the tens of thousands of police we already have to get off their damn phones and do their jobs even when the crime isn’t murder
All NYPD alerts are sent to the police on their phones.
I have no ties to the police but I feel it’s an unfair statement to suggest the policemen just sit on their cell phones.
But SO many of them do. It is unforgivable for people whose job is to protectdont even see what’s going on around them.
Cell phones can be such a blight. It is so pathetic to see people in museums taking pictures of paintings instead of just looking at and experiencing them.
Mamdani has said he will take final say of a Cop getting fired away from the Police Commissioner and give it to a bunch of Cop hating morons known as CCRB. If you think cops do nothing now just wait. Cops put their lives in danger but NOT their jobs, and I agree with you numbers don’t matter much if Cops don’t feel their job is safe, they will stand there like blue potted plants.
If the want their jobs to be safe, they should DO their jobs. That’s pretty much the end of the story.
Police Officers do their job.
The issue is the job has been re-defined.
After January 1st 2026, there will be another re-definition of what their job is.
Please do not complain, this is what the people are voting for and want,
Mayor Mamdami ain’t gonna do it
Probably not, but the last Mayor that made me feel like he was really changing things was Rudy. Now, on balance, he seems to have wasted his life after 2001.
Bloomberg, too.
Both Republicans. I am a lifelong Democrat but it’s interesting to see that nothing is black and white. Except, of course, for our horrific current government.
We need Mamdani, because then President Trump will run NYC
We don’t need Mamdani because it will be 1000x worse. We need someone to come clean up the streets and if that means Trump, you should put your political non sense aside and hope that the next time it’s not someone you know.
I agree Mamdani will drive wealthy people away, drive up crime. He will try to fight Trump and the people of the City of New York will suffer, as Trump slaps this lightweight around.
Please move to Miami if you hate the city so much
I moved to Florida last year., I don’t want Liberal New Yorkers coming down here, even for Vacation stay there and freeze, It does not mean that I don’t still love to city and the UWS
As opposed the current mayor who makes deals with Trump and can’t clean up the streets?
Mayor Adams got us closed garbage bins and compost bins. Finally! It made a huge difference on the UWS. He also did a great job with Pre-K and cared about education. I know he was corrupt – but those bins are pretty!
The streets are still trash strewn.
I didn’t say anything about Adams’s pre-k schooling. But in general, he’s not helping public education in NYC, albeit he’s not alone in not helping.
LOL a 17-year-old is a Child, never going to be punished in New York I have seen it so many times. He can’t even go in a cell he has to held in a room at Precinct for children. Raise the AGE turns troubled kids into real criminals because the system does not stop them until its too late.
Get ready. This is going to be daily under Mamdani. and no arrests.
Did you think Halloween night was going to be different from any other Friday night?
17 is NOT a ‘boy’. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
There is no time for juvenile crime
People need to realize that juveniles, 13 – 19, represent the most dangerous group of street crime thugs. These are immature, malformed criminals that the city seems to have an inability to defend society against. The first priority is to remove them from the street and then attempt to rehabilitate them while acknowledging how difficult this is likely to be.
This is not a child. This is a young criminal. Stop voting for soft on crime politicians. People think it will never happen to them till it does.
We need more police presence in that area on Amsterdam. Many shady characters there – 103 – 104, Not just Halloween.
It was wholly predictable that people would blame Mamdani who hasn’t even been elected yet. Meanwhile Eric Adams, a former policeman, is still mayor.
Hallelujah
Where did anyone blame Mamdani?
In every comment section as of late
Much of the discourse of progressives focuses on the alleged perpetrator. Progressives signal concern for the incarcerated or potentially incarcerated population. MEANWHILE, too seldom do progressives seem to follow out a robust concern for victims of crimes. While a politician or advocate talks about the evils of putting juveniles or other categories of perpetrators into a facility, where is the victim, or many potential victims, in that discourse?
Vote for a mayor and DA who will enforce the law and take criminals off the streets.
The number of indicted, tried and convicted who turn out to be innocent is fairly large. That is why the bar for arrest, indictment and conviction needs to be high. The Innocent Project has saved quite a few from execution who turn out to have been innocent.
How does this reporter come up with the exact age for the young predator (“17 year old boy”) if he escaped? Also the word choice of “boy” is eye-catching. Some 17 year olds are boys, and some are “young men”. At 18 years old, they can go to war, and are considered “men”. Just wonder if this was a conscious choice by the writer?
From one Deb to another: 18 is the age at which people are legally defined as adults, therefore it is correct to refer to a 17-year-old as a boy or a girl.
We need more police, and not defunding! Think about that when you vote today or tomorrow!
In a country with state supported violence (look what’s happening. At city immigration offices) it’s so funny that people are shocked at random crime.
Deeply, disturbingly ironic, of course not humorous-funny. I know what you mean, though some may not.
The woman was ‘assaulted’ and the man was stabbed. It is awful, really for everyone.
So it looks like the teenager was a known individual, as they published his age, so that ‘assault’ could have been anything. Going to the hospital means nothing because the lady could have just gone along with that plan in order to firm up a lawsuit. It looks like it happened in or in front of that grocery store. The stabbing happened above 96th Street on Columbus, and 104th which is smack in the middle of a huge hosing project complex – so that’s not an entirely unexpected crime.
I don’t condone crime or try and dismiss it, but don’t act like people strolling around the ‘gentler’ parts of the UWS should be frightened.