A stranger stabbed a Pennsylvania man in broad daylight during a fight over sitting on a bench in Brooklyn on Labor Day, cops said.
Jason Morris, 40, knifed the 34-year-old victim in the face and back at Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights — near the path of the West Indian Day Parade — when the squabble broke out around 2:45 p.m., authorities said.
Police assigned to the parade detail responded, but it’s unclear whether either man had been attending the festivities.
The victim was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition, police said.
Morris was arrested and charged with assault, cops said.
In an unrelated incident hours later in Queens, another man, 37, was stabbed multiple times in the torso at 81st Street and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park just before midnight, police said.
A passerby flagged down a nearby EMS unit, and the victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in critical condition, cops said.
The victim’s injuries are so serious that he was unable to be interviewed, authorities said.
The motive for the attack was not immediately known.