Two people were violently attacked at subway stations in Queens within a span of three days, one with a knife and the other with a metal pipe, police said.

Just after midnight Saturday, police say a 31-year-old man was approached by a suspect at the Queensboro Plaza station and struck in the head repeatedly with a metal pipe.

The suspect fled on foot, and the victim was taken to a local hospital, where he was expected to survive, police said.

What You Need To Know

  • Two people were violently attacked at subway stations in Queens within a span of three days, one with a knife and the other with a metal pipe, police said

  • Just after midnight Saturday, police say a 31-year-old man was approached by a suspect at the Queensboro Plaza station and struck in the head repeatedly with a metal pipe

  • Two days earlier, on Thursday at around 10:30 a.m., a tourist was randomly slashed in the neck with a knife at the Queens Plaza station, according to police

  • Both suspects are still at large

Two days earlier, on Thursday at around 10:30 a.m., a tourist was randomly slashed in the neck with a knife at the Queens Plaza station, according to police.

Police have released photos of the man they say fled after that attack. Both suspects are still at large.

On Monday, some passengers who commute on the E, F or R train lines at Queens Plaza said the incidents made them nervous. 

"You get scared, you hope nothing happens, but there is a lot of crazy going on right now, and they are just attacking people," commuter Nadira Moses said. "So we just hope that, you know, for our own safety, for our kids, for other people, it's a shame."

Almost every day last week, a violent incident was reported underground: a shooting in the Bronx last Monday; a subway performer hit in the head with a bottle on Tuesday; an MTA worker and commuters assaulted Wednesday; a tourist slashed Thursday; a stabbing outside a station Friday; and a pipe attack Saturday, according to police. 

At the end of last year, overall subway crime was down, but new crime statistics show it is slightly on the rise this year.

Though the increase can be largely attributed to more property crime, like grand larcenies and robberies, assaults are up too.

Through the first six weeks of the year, there have been 64 recorded assaults compared to 58 in the same period last year.

In a statement, NYC Transit President Richard Davey said, "With hundreds more officers surged into transit, 15,000 cameras in stations and thousands more cameras on trains assisting the NYPD, anyone breaking the law in transit can count on getting caught. Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams' Cops, Cameras and Care initiative produced a drop in serious crimes overall last year and it's now up to prosecutors and the courts to ensure real consequences so the same people aren't free to keep coming back to prey on transit workers and riders." 

Police are asking anyone with information about the incidents in Queens to contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-8477.