Woman, 23, slashed in face during NYC subway attack by stranger

A woman was slashed in the face by a disturbed stranger on a Brooklyn train, police said.

The ugly incident unfolded shortly before 3 p.m. Friday on board a northbound “3” train as it entered the Nostrand Avenue subway station, cops said.

As the train doors opened, a twisted male straphanger, who was also riding the train with the 23-year-old woman, held the door open with his foot, “leaned towards the victim, and without provocation or words exchanged” slashed her on the face and top of her arm with an unknown object, the NYPD said.

The suspect ran, while the victim remained on the train for one more stop, exiting at the Franklin Avenue station, where she was met by police. She was later treated at and released from Kings County Hospital, cops said.

The attacker is believed to be 5-foot-11, 170 pounds and last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and black and white sneakers according to photos released by the NYPD.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

The scary slashing follows a similar incident Thursday, when a man, 54, was cut by an apparent stranger in an unprovoked attack on a Brooklyn subway platform.

In that instance, the victim had just gotten off an R train at the 95th Street station in Bay Ridge around 5:45 a.m. when another man approached him on the platform and slashed him on the collarbone with a switchblade, police said. 

The assailant, believed to be in his 30s, didn’t say a word during the attack, cops said. The victim was taken to NYU Langone hospital in stable condition.

The NYPD could not say if the two slashings were committed by the same man.