Transit police are looking for a man they say stabbed a rider while trying to rob him of his backpack and cell phone. The incident took place on Sunday afternoon on the elevated train platform at Liberty Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard.
Police chased the suspect down the stairs and onto the street but he disappeared from them blocks away on 107th Avenue and 93rd Street.
The unidentified male victim ( shown at right) was treated at the scene by EMS workers for a stab wound to the finger. He refused to go to the hospital for further treatment and was headed home on his own.