Breaking: Jewish Man Wounded in Stabbing Outside New York City Synagogue

A visibly Jewish man was one of the two victims seriously wounded in an unprovoked stabbing spree on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, media reports said.

According to the New York Post, citing law enforcement sources, the attacker first assaulted a 57-year-old Asian man near West 84th Street and Central Park West, stabbing him with a knife in the torso, at around 1:30 p.m.

A short time later, a 50-year-old Jewish man wearing a yarmulke, was stabbed in the torso with a screwdriver as he left the Jewish Center, a Modern Orthodox synagogue located at West 86th Street and Central Park West.

At around 2:45 p.m., the 51-year-old suspect was arrested by police after barricading himself in an apartment on Amsterdam Avenue near West 88th Street.

The incident occurred as Jews across the globe marked Tisha B’Av, a fasting day mourning tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people over history, including the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.

I am absolutely sickened and furious by what appears to be an antisemitic stabbing on the Upper West Side.

While we await additional details to be confirmed, we know that what is happening in our city is abhorrent. The fear in the Jewish community is real. Every New Yorker…

— Speaker Julie Menin (@SpeakerMenin) July 23, 2026

This is a developing story and will be updated as more details are confirmed.

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