A 61-year-old man was stabbed in the left arm outside the Bronx Terminal Market on Tuesday, September 8, at around 9:00 p.m., after a verbal dispute with an unidentified man escalated into a knife attack. The attacker fled on foot heading north on Exterior Street.
According to NYPD Crime Stoppers
, the confrontation began as a verbal dispute in front of 610 Exterior Street before the unidentified male suspect displayed a knife and stabbed the victim, who sustained a minor injury. The address places the incident directly outside the Bronx Terminal Market, also known as Gateway Center, a nearly one-million-square-foot retail complex along the Major Deegan Expressway that houses anchors including Target, Home Depot, Food Bazaar, and BJ's Wholesale Club, according to
NYC Tourism
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The site has public transportation access and serves DMV customers. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has its Bronx District Office and Traffic Violations Bureau at 610 Exterior Street, per the New York State DMV.
A High-Traffic Corner Near Yankee Stadium
The stretch of Exterior Street sits just south of Yankee Stadium and is bordered by the Major Deegan Expressway, the IRT Jerome Avenue Line's 4 train along River Avenue, and the IND Concourse Line's B and D trains — a web of transit corridors surrounding the scene, per Wikipedia's entry on the Bronx Terminal Market. Before its 2009 redevelopment into the Gateway Center mall, the 17-acre site had housed the original wholesale Bronx Terminal Market, opened in 1935 under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, along with the former Bronx House of Detention for Men.
The crime scene falls within the NYPD's 44th Precinct, which patrols 1.97 square miles covering Concourse, Highbridge, Yankee Stadium, and the Bronx Terminal Market from its station house at 2 East 169th Street, according to the NYPD. Under New York Penal Law § 120.05(2), intentionally causing physical injury to another person with a deadly weapon such as a knife is classified as Assault in the Second Degree, a Class D violent felony carrying a statutory penalty of up to seven years in state prison, per the New York State Senate's criminal code.
Part of a Wider Pattern of Knife Attacks
The September attack follows a July 1 neck slashing at 280 East 162nd Street and a March 2026 predawn double slashing on Walton Avenue, both unresolved cases, as previously reported by Hoodline. NYPD has sought the public's help in specific open assault cases.
NYPD CompStat figures through early August 2026 showed felony assaults in the 44th Precinct had declined 6.0% year-to-date to 596 reported incidents, compared to 634 during the same period in 2025, even as misdemeanor assaults in the precinct rose 4.3%. Reported crime across the Bronx as a whole fell 12% overall in the first half of 2026 compared to the same span in 2025, with the Bronx's decline leading citywide crime reduction, per City & State New York's reporting.
Reward Offered for Information
NYPD Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $3,500 for tips leading to an arrest and indictment in the case, funded through the non-profit New York City Police Foundation. Tips can be submitted anonymously by calling 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), by visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or via the Crime Stoppers X account, @NYPDTips; Spanish-speaking tipsters can call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). No information is currently available on whether the victim and suspect knew each other before the dispute, or what specifically triggered the argument that led to the stabbing.
