A 54-year-old man was stabbed to death on the platform of a Coney Island subway station, police said Wednesday.
The victim was stabbed in the back on the platform at the Stillwell Avenue station, the terminus for several Brooklyn subway lines, about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
He was rushed by medics to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead at 12:06 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
The killer, a man in his 30s clad in a green shirt, got away and is being sought. He was last seen on Stillwell Ave. police said. The murder weapon was not recovered.
The murder is the ninth this year in the city’s transit system, nearly double the five slayings in all of 2023. Ten people were murdered in the subway system in 2022.
Through Sunday, the overall serious crime rate in transit is down 6%, lead by a 16% drop in robberies and a 5% decrease in felony assaults.