NYC subway violence continues after Hochul deploys National Guard NBC New York [Video]

The NYPD is looking for two men who allegedly attacked a good Samaritan who intervened in their harassment of an elderly woman at a Bronx subway station early Thursday, hours after New York’s governor and the head of the MTA outlined sweeping new state efforts, including deploying the National Guard, to address surging subway crime.

According to police, the 53-year-old victim spotted the men harassing the woman when he got off a northbound No. 2 train at the Pelham Parkway station shortly before 1 a.m. He stepped in, and was slashed in the hand with an unknown object, the NYPD said. The two suspects ran off. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he says he received eight stitches to close his wound.

The Bronx attack was the second transit assault within a matter of hours after Hochul’s announcement of a new five-point plan to use state resources to help shore up subway safety. Barely after she finished, reports …