A 23-year-old man is dead and another person is recovering from injuries after two people were stabbed on Nagle Avenue in Washington Heights early Monday, according to police. The attack marks the second fatal stabbing on that stretch of street in less than a year, and it comes as investigators are also looking into two shootings that rattled the same stretch of northern Manhattan overnight.
Police said the 23-year-old victim died after being stabbed on Nagle Avenue, while a second person was also injured in the same incident, according to CBS News New York. The station reported the stabbing occurred in Washington Heights, though details on what led to the confrontation, and the condition of the surviving victim, have not been released. Neither victim has been publicly identified by police.
The overnight violence unfolded as festivities connected to the annual Dominican Day Parade drew large crowds to Upper Manhattan, according to a Facebook post from ABC7NY, which reported that two separate shootings were also under investigation in Inwood the same night. It remains unclear whether the parade celebrations are directly connected to the stabbing, and police have not confirmed any link between the incidents.
A Corridor With a Violent History
This is not the first deadly stabbing on this exact block. In September 2025, 45-year-old Omar Lopez died after being stabbed in the left shoulder at 141 Nagle Avenue, according to Patch. Police released surveillance images following that attack but never established a motive, and it's unknown whether a suspect was ever identified in that earlier case.
Nagle Avenue has also seen other volatile moments. In October 2022, a dispute among a large crowd at Nagle Avenue and Dyckman Street escalated into an armed confrontation in which responding NYPD officers shot a man brandishing a handgun, prompting a formal inquiry by the state Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation. The corridor sits at the boundary between two neighborhoods that both claim it as their own — 2015 mapping data found that 46% of Inwood residents and 43% of Washington Heights residents consider the Broadway and Nagle Avenue area part of their own turf, an ambiguity that has long complicated how incidents there get described in local coverage.
Recent Knife Violence Across Northern Manhattan
Monday's stabbing follows a string of knife attacks Hoodline has tracked across the area in recent months. In April, a multi-wound stabbing outside a Dyckman Street bar near Nagle Avenue sent police searching for a suspect. In May, a phone robbery crew left two people slashed on Washington Heights streets, and police were hunting five suspects. And in July, Hoodline reported on a late-night stabbing at West 178th Street and Wadsworth Avenue, followed less than two weeks later by a separate slashing near 178th Street.
That pattern of street-level knife violence stands in contrast to broader crime trends in the area. The 34th Precinct, which covers Washington Heights north of West 179th Street and Inwood, recorded a 64% drop in shooting incidents and a 69% decrease in shooting victims during the first half of 2025 compared to the same period the year before, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Borough-wide, total homicides fell 46% and shootings dropped 43% during that same stretch, a decline law enforcement attributed to targeted gang prosecutions and community investments.
Open Questions and Possible Charges
Police have not said whether they have identified a suspect or recovered surveillance footage from Monday's attack, and the motive behind the stabbing remains unknown. If a suspect is eventually identified and charged, New York law offers prosecutors a range of options: intentionally causing a death, or causing one through depraved indifference, constitutes second-degree murder, a Class A-I felony carrying a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life. Causing a death while intending only serious physical injury is instead charged as first-degree manslaughter, a Class B violent felony punishable by up to 25 years, a distinction prosecutors in knife-related cases often have to weigh.
Nagle Avenue itself is one of the busier residential corridors in the area, home to the elevated Dyckman Street subway station on the 1 line, which logged nearly 1.5 million passenger entries in 2024. The 34th Precinct's boundaries trace back to 1994, when the NYPD split the original command in two amid the drug-related violence of the crack epidemic era, carving out a separate 33rd Precinct to the south. For now, the identities of both victims, the condition of the survivor, and any connection between the stabbing and the night's other reported violence remain unconfirmed.
