NYT: Postal Worker Survives Saw Attack

By REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. postal worker who was attacked on a New York subway platform by a man wielding two power saws said his assailant didn't say a word as he tried to cut through him. Michael Steinberg, 64, was critically injured on Thursday by a man who had grabbed the cordless tools from a cart used by construction workers at the 110th Street station on Manhattan's upper west side.
``He was trying to cut through me and he never stopped,'' Steinberg was quoted as saying in the New York Post newspaper on Friday. ``The motor kept going on and he never stopped -- for two, three, four times, he never stopped.'' Steinberg told reporters that his assailant said nothing during the attack that happened at about 3:30 a.m. as he was on his way to work.
A hospital spokeswoman was unable to comment on Steinberg's injuries or condition but the newspaper said he suffered a deep slice across his abdomen as well as a punctured lung and a broken rib. A New York City police spokeswoman said Tareyton Williams, 33, of the Bronx, was arrested following the attack and charged with attempted murder, robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon.
The attack came about three weeks after a man was arrested for stabbing four random victims over a 24-hour period in Manhattan. Two of the knifings occurred in the city's subway system. But a report last month by the FBI on violent crime in the United States showed New York was getting safer.
Over the past decade, city authorities have changed the face of Times Square and other areas of Manhattan with tough policing that has led to a sharp drop in violent crimes in tourist areas. The New York murder rate of 6.7 per 100,000 people is among the lowest of major cities in the United States, with less than half as many murders per capita as in Miami, Dallas, Chicago and Houston, according to a report in The New York Times.