A woman was slashed Wednesday night on the subway in Lower Manhattan. Police say it was the second knife attack in the subway in two days.They come as the latest crime statistics released by the NYPD on Wednesday show a 7.

A 29-year-old woman was slashed multiple times on a subway in the Financial District by a knife-wielding man who stole her phone before fleeing the scene, authorities say. Police say the woman was on a northbound 3 train at the Wall Street station just after 11 p.

The back-to-back violence comes as police scale down the number of cops underground from 300 overnight patrols to 200, officials said.