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Two Teens Wounded in Hell's Kitchen Melee, Officials and Witnesses Say

By Janon Fisher | September 9, 2014 5:19pm
 A man was wounded in a daylight stabbing during a raucous afternoon fight involving a large crowd of high school children in front of a Midtown wine bar, officials and witnesses said.
A man was wounded in a daylight stabbing during a raucous afternoon fight involving a large crowd of high school children in front of a Midtown wine bar, officials and witnesses said.
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HELL'S KITCHEN — Two teenagers were wounded in an afternoon fight involving a large crowd of high school students in front of a Midtown wine bar, officials and witnesses said.

A unidentified 18-year-old man was stabbed in the back and a 19-year-old man was slashed during the melee at about 3:15 p.m. in front of Crispin's Wine Bar at 10th Avenue and West 52nd Street, police said. Witnesses said "a lot" of teens were involved in the fight.

Both teens, who witnesses said appeared to be high school students, were taken to local hospitals with serious non-fatal injuries after being attacked, an FDNY spokesman said. Officials could not say what kind of weapon was used in the stabbing. 

"I thought they were playing around," Crispin's waiter Luis Arce said after the attack. "Then I see the guy down on the floor. The guy was stabbed in the back. I don't know why they stabbed him."

May Jasin, whose family owns the Midtown 99 Cent store a few doors down, said she had just picked up her own adolescent children when she heard the commotion.

"They ran into the street," she said. "They weren't playing around. They were fighting."

She said that some of the attackers took a broom from the front of her shop and chased another person down the street with it.

"They're too fresh. They talk badly," she said. "I told them I'm going to call the police, but they don't listen."

No arrests have been made, police said.