East Village Slasher Goes For Man's Leg, Cops Say

EAST VILLAGE, NY — A man was slashed in the leg Monday afternoon in the East Village, an NYPD spokesperson said.

The man was slashed in the leg on East Eighth Street between avenues C and D about 2:50 p.m., according to the spokesperson. He is expected to survive, the spokesperson said.

Cops searched for the leg slasher Monday afternoon, who the spokesperson said was a 6- foot-tall man wearing all black clothing.

Additional information from the NYPD was not immediately available.

About half an hour or so later, another man was punched and fell to the ground hitting his head near Second Avenue and Houston Street, FDNY and NYPD spokespeople said. Emergency medical personnel rushed the bleeding man to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the assault, the spokespeople said.

Monday's leg slashing near Avenue D comes a few weeks after a police chase in Tompkins Square Park for a gun after one person was stabbed.

In the Ninth Precinct, two people have been killed in 2019 — one man was stabbed to death and another was shot in the head.

Despite the uptick in murders in 2019, major crimes overall were down by about 13 percent in the past two years in the Ninth, but felony assaults were up nearly 16 percent in two years, NYPD statistics through Sept. 22 show.