An unhinged slasher who randomly attacked a stranger outside a Manhattan subway station was free to walk the streets despite a separate transit knife attack, officials said — as his disfigured victim ...

More than 6,000 homeless people found sleeping on trains and platforms in the city’s subway system over the last year were helped by a special task force of NYPD cops, nurses and mental health ...

A deranged vagrant charged in a random Manhattan slashing this week was set to be locked up on bail after a hauntingly similar attack last month — until he talked the judge out of it, court records ...