A 14-year-old boy was stabbed repeatedly during a fight with another teenager in Harlem on Thursday morning, police and witnesses said.
The victim was knifed twice in the chest and once in the back on St. Nicholas Avenue near West 112th Street around 8:20 a.m., police said.
First responders rushed him to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.
A man who works nearby and would only provide his first name, John, said later Thursday morning that two teens were fighting before things turned violent.
“I heard a car honking, then I looked outside and I saw two kids throwing punches,” he told The Post. “I didn’t see the stabbing. Then the police came.”
“It’s not safe. Kids, especially, with knives. They think it’s cool. It’s sad,” he added.
Police did not immediately provide a description of a suspect, or a motive for the stabbing.
Hours later, a portion of the sidewalk was taped off at the crime scene. One police officer could be seen shining a flashlight into a garbage can, and other cops were searching businesses in the area – where several schools are located.
Sean Patterson, 52, a carpenter, was working inside a nearby building, when he stepped outside and saw several police cars. He said cops told him two kids were fighting.
“Who brings a knife to school?” Patterson said. “You should have a pen or a pencil, but you got a knife? Two times in the chest? That’s critical. Where are the parents?”
“The parents give their kids too much privilege, they got no respect for nobody.”
Roy Whatley, 56, a carpenter who was working with Patterson, agreed.
“This is too much, in the last two years especially,” Whatley said. “How can we change it? It starts at home. What are you doing with a knife? This puts all our lives at risk. I could be walking down the street and somebody pulls out a knife on me.”
The broad-daylight attack came less than a week after a 13-year-old Syles Ular was viciously stabbed to death by a rival his own age on board a Staten Island bus, authorities said.
Earlier this month, a 13-year-old Bronx girl was slashed, pummeled and pepper-sprayed by three other teenagers — one of them the older sister of her classmate, cops said.
