Three people were knifed across Manhattan, including one attacked by a stranger in Tribeca and a teen cut in a glitzy Midtown shopping district, police said.
In all, five people were stabbed in three boroughs between Friday night and Saturday morning, including a Bronx man killed during an argument in the Norwood section, police said.
Marvin Duchenne, 29, was fatally stabbed around 8 p.m. Friday as he argued with a Hispanic man who pulled a blade on him near Jerome Avenue and East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, police said. Duchenne died later at Jacobi Hospital.
A witness told The Post Duchenne and a pal appeared to be arguing with another man, who was drinking, and were trying to walk away when the agitator threw a punch at Duchenne’s buddy.
“It happened so fast,” the witness said. “They were scuffling, swinging but no one was connecting.”
The doomed man made it across Jerome Avenue before he collapsed. The witness heard a woman scream, and saw “a lot of blood.”
“He was defending his friend. That’s not right. I wouldn’t leave my friend alone,” the witness added. His distraught mother was seen speaking to police from Duchenne’s Kossuth Avenue home Saturday morning, not far from the stabbing scene.
“I don’t know what happened,” she told a reporter. “Right now, I don’t want to talk . . . I don’t feel well.”
Neighbors said the stabbing took place at the “drug-infested” corner of Jerome Avenue, across the street from Van Cortland Park.
“You have all kinds of people standing out there — the pushers and the users,” said a woman who gave her name as Ellen. “They take over the corner, especially at night. It’s either you are hustling or you are buying.”
Just before midnight, Madison Avenue was the backdrop for another knife attack, when a 19-year-old man was stabbed just steps from the Plaza hotel and designer retail stores, police said.
Bloody clothing could be seen lying on the sidewalk in front of Tod’s designer handbag store, photos from the scene show.
The victim was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Around 1:15 a.m., a man was stabbed in the back at Captain Tilly Park in Queens, police said. He was taken to Jamaica hospital in stable condition, but wouldn’t provide details on his attacker, police said.
The mayhem moved to Tribeca about an hour later, when a 46-year-old man was critically injured in a stabbing at Church and Reade Streets in front of the trendy Hungry Ghost coffee shop.
The unidentified suspect, described as a 6-foot-tall white man with black hair and wearing a dark jacket, approached the victim around 2:30 a.m. and cut him in the arm and torso, police said.
Neighbors were left shaken by the attack, a rarity in the family-oriented neighborhood.
“It’s horrible. This is Tribeca. You don’t really have these types of things around here usually. It’s quite frightening. People don’t even lock their doors in this neighborhood . . . It’s normally really, really safe,” said a woman who lives on Reade Street.
About 15 minutes later in Chinatown, police said Maximillian Ong, 38, stabbed a 20-year-old three times near Grand and Elizabeth Streets — in the torso, left forearm and right hand, leaving the sidewalk stained with blood and neighbors shaken by the violence.
Ong’s mother defended her son Saturday morning and said the slashing stemmed from a “testosterone”-fueled street fight that began when her son tried to stop the victim from urinating on their “property.”
“It’s stupid. This is stupid. This is a stupid kind of fight. There’s too much testosterone,” the woman, who declined to provide her name, said from Ong’s apartment. “I just wish that groups of guys don’t go around the neighborhood doing things like this on other people’s property.”
Elizabeth Street residents were drawn from their beds by a commotion outside, explained a neighbor, who heard a slashing that “sounded like a sword.”
“From my understanding, a guy was peeing on the wall . . . I think someone came out and was pissed off, and was like, ‘What the f–k are you doing?’” said Lauren, 23. “It’s f–king scary. It’s crazy.”
Ong went back upstairs to his apartment, and was arrested about 30 minutes later, according to police and witnesses.