Crime continues to plague the streets of New York City as the holiday season draws to a close.
The NYPD provided Fox News with city-wide crime statistics from Friday to Sunday. There were 17 shootings and 21 shootings during this period, an increase from 14 shootings and 16 shootings reported last year.
Five homicides were also reported over the weekend compared to zero reported in the same period in 2020, according to police statistics.
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Other crimes that took place over the weekend included a street vendor who was stabbed in the thigh during a robbery that took place around 6 p.m. 19 Sunday in the Midtown Manhattan Theater District, police said.
“I see some people running. He’s coming back from here, blood’s coming from his body, a lot of blood’s coming,” witness Khaled Eid told WCBS-TV.
The victim was treated at a hospital and was expected to survive, the station reported. Police were still searching for the suspect.
Residents of the Big Apple recently reported a number of other incidents, which included a man threatening to kill a subway rider while carrying what police called “wooden daggers” and another man waving a sword in the hallway in an apartment building.
NYPD detectives on Monday searched for a man waving wooded daggers and threatening to kill a woman while on the subway. Police said the suspect has a tattoo on his face.
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Police said Monday that detectives were looking for the man who was seen carrying the wooden spikes. He was riding a 4-train at the 59th Street subway station in Manhattan on Nov. 29 when he made derogatory remarks against a 46-year-old woman and threatened to kill her, police said.
Meanwhile, residents of a New York City Housing Authority building in Manhattan reported to police that a man was seen walking in the hallways last week with what appeared to be a long sword.
Police were called to the scene but no one was arrested, WABC-TV reported.
Tenants told the station that they have had problems with homeless people going in and living in the stairwells because the front door of the building cannot lock.
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On Sunday, police announced the arrest of a man who had attempted to rape a woman on the Queens subway on December 1, FOX5 New York reported.
Tyrone Brown, 38, was arrested in connection with the attack on a 30-year-old woman who was walking up a flight of stairs to leave the subway station, police said.
Brown allegedly grabbed the woman’s skirt and pulled down her tights before attempting to rape her, according to police. The suspect ran off when a passerby spotted him.
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