A 54-year-old woman was stabbed in the stomach inside a luxury Upper East Side apartment building on East 73rd Street, and police have taken a person of interest into custody as the investigation continues. Officers arrived at the scene between Second and Third Avenues at approximately 12:39 p.m. and found the woman with a stab wound to her stomach.
The attack happened inside one of six buildings that make up the historic Eastgate complex, according to the New York Daily News. EMS medics transported the woman to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition. Police said charges against the person of interest were pending as of the outlet’s report.
The Eastgate complex, which includes buildings at 220, 225, 230, and 235 East 73rd Street, was designed by architect Emery Roth and built by developers Bing & Bing between 1929 and 1936, according to Homes.com. The pre-war cooperative buildings operate as full-service residences with 24-hour doormen, live-in superintendents, and gated entryways, per Apartments.com. That level of controlled access is standard for high-end Manhattan co-ops, which typically enforce strict visitor logs and keycard or doorman screening protocols.
Quick Ambulance Ride to a Level 1 Trauma Center
The woman’s stable condition may owe something to how close the Eastgate complex sits to serious trauma care. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, located at 525 East 68th Street, operates an accredited Level 1 Adult Trauma Center less than half a mile from the East 73rd Street scene, according to NewYork-Presbyterian. Level 1 trauma facilities keep surgical teams on hand around the clock to treat severe penetrating organ trauma, which made the hospital a natural destination for paramedics responding to a stomach stabbing…