A 55-year-old tourist was attacked with a knife while walking on the sidewalk in an upscale district of New York City Wednesday, police said.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital that the stabbing occurred in broad daylight at approximately 10:23 a.m. in an Upper West Side neighborhood.

the police said that the 55-year-old’s left ear and left cheek were cut during the apparently random attack. The victim was transported to a local hospital following the stabbing.

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The suspect fled after the attack, authorities said. Surveillance footage, obtained by Fox News Digital, showed the suspect fleeing the scene. He was spotted with a knife.

The NYPD continues to investigate the incident.

Wednesday’s stabbing follows a stabbing spree that killed 3 people on Monday. (Peter Gerber)

The stabbing comes just two days after a knife-wielding man was charged with killing three people on Monday.

Police arrested Ramon Rivera, 51, a career criminal, earlier this week after allegedly being in a unprovoked stabbing over Manhattan.

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Rivera, who is homeless, has eight prior arrests and was released from prison just weeks before the deadly knife attacks.

Mayor Eric Adams, left, and District Attorney Alvin Bragg, right, listen during a news conference. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

The stabbings also come in the background At District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s For the past year, it has focused on the prosecution of President-elect Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Ray Kelly, former New York Police Commissioner and CEO of The Guardian Group, said “The Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade that Bragg’s soft-spoken approach hindered the city.

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“Mr Bragg is not reasonable,” he told Kilmeade on Wednesday. “He is … a believer in the most radical of approaches. In fact, on the first day of his mandate, he gave us a manifesto about what he will not do. One of them is that he has no intention of arresting people. for fare beating, which, by the way, the MTA says they’re losing three-quarters of a billion dollars a year there because of that, and that’s why we have congestion pricing because of District Attorney Bragg.”

The Manhattan district attorney campaigned to indict Trump, saying in a 2021 interview that he personally planned to focus on the Trump case once he became prosecutor.

“This is obviously a case with consequences, one that deserves the attention of the prosecutor’s staff,” Bragg said at the time, according to CNN.

Daniel Penny leaves Manhattan Criminal Court after being charged with the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway in 2023. (John M. Mantel for Fox News Digital)

Supporters of Jordan Neely protest during a rally in support of Daniel Penny at Collect Pond Park, New York City, in May. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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The stabbing also comes as Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran, is currently on trial and faces manslaughter charges for defending New Yorkers on an F train from uptown last year.

Penny is fighting manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely, a homeless subway performer, for putting Neely in a fatal chokehold.

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The ongoing trial has raised questions about the justice of the case and subway safety.

Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.