A 40-year-old man was fatally stabbed at an Upper Manhattan subway station Friday night during a dispute with another person, the police said.
Officers responding to a 911 call about a person stabbed at the West 175th Street A train station in Washington Heights just before 6 p.m. found the man near the turnstiles on the mezzanine level, the police said. He had been stabbed several times in the torso, the police said.
The man, whose name was not released pending notification of his family, was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the police said.
No arrests had been made as of Friday night, and the investigation was continuing, the police said.
Around 8:30 p.m., a station entrance on Fort Washington Avenue between West 174th and 175th Streets was closed off with yellow police tape. A trains were skipping the station, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subways. Police officers at the station entrances were directing riders to take the bus or head to stations at West 181st or 168th Streets.
M.T.A. surveys show that many riders feel unsafe, but data has not always confirmed the public’s perception. Crime rates rose during the coronavirus pandemic starting in 2020, but last year overall crime in the transit system fell nearly 3 percent compared with 2022 even as the number of daily riders rose 14 percent.
There have been five murders in the transit system this year through June 16, according to police data, compared with four during the same time period last year. Overall major crime in the transit system this year is down 5.5 percent compared with the same time period last year.