A homeless, “emotionally disturbed” man with nearly a dozen prior busts stabbed a 51-year-old straphanger inside a Greenwich Village subway station during the Thursday morning rush – knifing him in the back moments after the two feuded on board a train, cops and sources said.
The two men – who did not know each other – clashed on board a Brooklyn-bound D train at West 4th Street around 7:30 a.m., cops said.
As the pair got off the train, the suspect – later identified as Justice Jackson, 30 — knifed the victim in the back, cops and sources said.
The victim was taken by EMS workers to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.
Meanwhile, Jackson — seen in a surveillance image wearing dark gray sweatpants, a black shirt and black slippers — hopped back on the train, sources said.
He was arrested more than 24 hours after the attack – around 1 p.m. Friday – and charged with both felony and misdemeanor assault, cops said.
Jackson has 11 previous arrests on his record — and is known as both a grand larceny recidivist and a repeat offender in the city’s transit system, the sources said.
His last arrest was in July, for three separate grand larceny cases, according to the sources.
Police also responded to 10 incidents involving Jackson as an “emotionally disturbed person,” according to the sources.
He was hospitalized following his Friday arrest, according to police, but it was not immediately clear why.
Felony assaults within the city’s transit system have seen a slight uptick so far this year, with 453 reported compared to the 445 at this time in 2024, according to the latest NYPD data, released on Sunday.
However, overall felony crime on the rails is down by about 4%, with 1,639 incidents reported compared to 1,706 during the same time last year, statistics show.
