Two men were wounded in separate back-to-back stabbings in the Manhattan subway system Wednesday, police said. The bloodshed began at 9:26 a.m. at the 110th St./Cathedral Parkway No. 1 train stop in Harlem when a 30-year-old man was stabbed in the head, arm and torso during an argument with his assailant. The victim was cut by an unknown object wielded by the rival, who ran off and has not been caught. Medics took the victim to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition. An MTA worker cleans up blood spatter with bleach on the southbound platform of the 110th St./Cathedral Parkway No. 1 subway stop in Harlem after a 30-year-old man was stabbed in the head, arm and torso during an argument with his assailant on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News) Less than 20 minutes later, a 31-year-old man was stabbed in the back as he rode a Bronx-bound No. 2 train rumbling into the 14th St. station in Greenwich Village. The stabber ran off. Medics took the victim to Bellevue Hospital, where he’s expected to recover, cops said. It was not immediately clear what sparked the stabbing. A 31-year-old man was stabbed in the back as he rode a Bronx-bound No. 2 train rumbling into the 14th St. station in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (Dean Moses / amNY) While crime is down by 5% across the city’s subway system, violent crime, particularly assaults and homicides, have increased, officials said. Recent grisly killings include the torching of homeless woman Debrina Kawam, 57, who was set ablaze as she slept on a train idling at the Stillwell Ave. station in Brooklyn’s Coney Island on Dec. 22. And on Tuesday, Kamel Hawkins, 23, was arrested on attempted murder charges for shoving a stranger onto the tracks at the W. 18th St. No. 1 stop in Chelsea. The victim, 46, miraculously survived with non-life threatening injuries, cops said. Subway shove suspect Kamel Hawkins is pictured in police custody leaving the 59th St. and Columbus Circle subway station Tuesday. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News) As of Sunday, the number of killings in the subway system doubled in 2024 compared to last year, from five to 10. The number of assaults increased by one, from 572 to 573. Earlier this year, the NYPD reassigned 1,000 officers to patrol the transit system. At the same time, Gov. Hochul sent in the National Guard to do bag checks at major transit hubs. Mayor Adams on Tuesday said that, despite some violent incidents, “crime is not surging in the subway system.” “We have had some high profile incidents that we are really disturbed about but overall crime is the lowest its been in years,” Adams said at a press conference. “In fact if you take out the two years of COVID, the last time crime was this low in our subway system was in 2009.”