An out-of-towner was found stabbed to death early Sunday outside a Bay Ridge bar that neighbors blasted as “always crazy.”
The 37-year-old victim — who was from Pennsylvania but not identified pending family notification — was allegedly knifed outside Catch 22 on Third Avenue in Brooklyn about 2:50 a.m., police said.
Officers found the victim with a torso wound and rushed him to NYU Langone, but he didn’t make it, authorities said.
Cops have not made any arrests, a department rep said.
Video from a nearby surveillance camera appears to show the victim on his hands and knees after he was stabbed — as bystanders slowly gathered around him.
On Sunday morning, a bloody hand print was pressed into the concrete, right next to a pool of the victim’s blood.
One of the victim’s friends — who had just been interviewed by cops outside the bar Sunday — would only say that the killing “wasn’t random.”
“No, it was not,” he said.
Neighbors said the bar has a reputation for rowdiness.
“The place is always crazy, always an argument outside,” a female resident told The Post on Sunday.
Several other locals echoed the woman’s comments, yelling toward the building that the city has “got to close this place down.”
Moses Alhusaini, manager of M&S Minimarket across the street, told The Post that he walked outside when he saw police cruisers pull up with their lights flashing.
“The man was dead on the ground,” he said. “The police were around him, and he was laying behind the car. It was dead silent. No one was saying anything. The man on the ground was making no sounds.”
Alhusaini, 39, said he saw lots of problems at the bar during the pandemic, including “crowds fighting at that place.
“It was crazy very often, but now they are holding it down,” he said. “The owner is taking it very seriously. That’s why I am shocked and surprised to see this now.”
A bartender at the joint Sunday declined comment to The Post.
A female neighbor said, “They were having some kind of private party there last night.
“It was loud and crazy outside,” she continued. “I just took my daughter and ran by as fast as we could. A lot of people outside, it gets dangerous over there.”
