One person was arrested after three men were slashed outside a Manhattan bar during a fight early Saturday, cops said.
The fracas erupted around 3:30 a.m. after closing outside Sally’s Bar on Lexington Avenue near East 29th Street in Kips Bay, police said.
The victims were approached by a group of men who asked them if they had any drugs, a police source said.
One of the men then pulled out a pocketknife and slashed the threesome, the source said.
One victim, who was in his 30s, was cut in his abdomen, a 45-year-old was slashed on the shoulder and a 46-year-old was cut on his neck, cops said. They were taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
Arlo Willner, 20, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said. He has no prior arrests, a police source said
Matthew Adams, 49, a tattoo artist for 26 years who works in the neighborhood, said too many people are armed.
“It’s a shame that people walk around with knives,” he said. “He already has a stupid mentality. He’s carrying a knife, he’s looking for a fight.”
The neighborhood is usually safe, he added.
“But I’m a New Yorker,” he said. “Anything can happen anywhere. It’s very unfortunate this happened here because you have blood on the sidewalk of a nice neighborhood.”
Rachelle Loyear, 50, who works in the security industry and has been living in the neighborhood for 10 years, said she was “shocked” by the incident.
“I would absolutely walk up and down the street at 2 o’clock in the morning and feel perfectly safe,” she said, adding she may now change her ways.
“I may choose not to do that.”
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