By Gus Saltonstall
A woman was slashed midday Tuesday in Central Park, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
A 24-year-old woman was on Center Drive, parallel to 63rd Street, around 1:30 p.m., when a 38-year-old woman slashed her multiple times, before taking her belongings and fleeing the scene, police said.
The victim was rushed to a hospital in stable condition, NYPD added.
ABC7 reported that the dispute on Tuesday involved two Central Park food vendors who had an ongoing feud over territory in the park. The suspect fled with her husband and son after the attack, ABC7 added.
This is a developing story; please check back in for updates.
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We cannot always be 100% vigilant of our surroundings when we go out. There is a limit to what we can see, sense, and hear. These random acts have the element of surprise and happen so fast. How absolutely frightening for that poor woman. Hopefully, she will recover physically and emotionally.
The story pretty clearly says it wasn’t random.
I don’t think we know yet if it was random?
Once again, just blocks from a large housing project in the West 60s.
Simple solution: facial recognition cameras in those buildings to see when people are there or not.
It’s taxpayer-paid, free housing for people that also happens to generate a lot of crime. It’s the least we can do.
You’re reaching.
Also, NYCHA is not in any manner automatically free housing.
Them Wall Street (“high” finance) generates a lot of white collar crime, should we stop funding Wall Street failures?
I wonder if this was the same scumbag that punched two women the other day?
https://www.westsiderag.com/2026/03/05/man-randomly-punches-2-women-on-the-upper-west-side-police
ABC news is saying it was a dispute between food vendors who have been sparring with each other since before Christmas.
You mean it [likely] wasn’t NYCHA residents? I’m shocked that Joe UWS above was in error — my world is shaken.
The park is as busy as I’ve seen it in the last few weeks. She was apparently on the street (from the article) in a well traveled area with many people around. How could there be NO details on the attacker?
that part of the park around the sunken lake is well known for being dangerous
this is really starting to get out of control.
as long as the leftist DA refuses to prosecute crimes like this it will only become more dangerous in the city