A 19-year-old man was slashed in the eye Thursday inside the 1st Avenue L-train station in Manhattan’s East Village, turning an argument on the platform into a bloody subway confrontation, according to police. The attack followed a verbal dispute and left the teen with a serious facial injury. He was taken to a local hospital, and a person of interest was detained at the scene as detectives dug into what happened.
As first reported by PIX11, the NYPD identified the location as the 1st Avenue station on the L line and confirmed the victim’s age as 19. Officers at the station took a person of interest into custody, and the victim was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The First Avenue station, at First Avenue and East 14th Street, is the easternmost Manhattan stop on the Canarsie (L) line and has multiple entrances and platform-edge barriers added in recent years, according to Wikipedia. With heavy foot traffic along the 14th Street corridor, incidents on the platform can quickly draw a crowd and complicate efforts to secure the scene and identify witnesses…