Two people — including a security guard — were mercilessly slashed Monday in disturbing subway attacks that erupted just minutes apart in Manhattan and Brooklyn, police sources said.
In the first incident, a security guard contracted by the MTA at the 86th St. station on the Upper East Side confronted a man sneaking onto the downtown platform of the Nos. 4, 5, and 6 trains around 6:25 p.m., sources said.
The 30-year-old guard tried to stop the fare evader, who became irate and pulled out a boxcutter, slashing the guard across the face.
Medics took the wounded security guard to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where he was in stable condition.
“He was just doing his job,” an MTA employee at the station said later Monday night. “[The attacker] was definitely a psycho.”
About a half hour later, two men argued on a Canarsie-bound L train, police said.
As the train rumbled toward the Wilson Ave. station in Bushwick, one of the men pulled out a blade and slashed the 30-year-old man he was arguing with.
The man, suffering from slash wounds to his back and neck, was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where he was expected to survive.
There were no immediate arrests in either slashing.