A 28-year-old woman is fighting for her life after she was stabbed multiple times in the neck while jogging along Brooklyn's waterfront on Friday night, October 30, 2026. The New York City Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that the attack happened at about 8 p.m. near Shore Parkway and Bay 17th Street in the Bath Beach neighbourhood, while the woman was running eastbound on the Shore Parkway Greenway, the paved path that runs beside the Belt Parkway above Gravesend Bay. Emergency medical crews took her to NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn in critical condition.
Source: Fox News Digital via US Times Mirror
Exactly what happened on the path
Police said the woman was jogging eastbound on the greenway when an unidentified attacker stabbed her multiple times in the neck. amNY, citing police, put the location at the pathway near Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue in Bath Beach at about 8:20 p.m. and reported that she was found in the grass beside the path. Investigators have not said what happened in the moments before the attack, whether the woman knew her attacker, or whether she was specifically targeted — and they have released no description of a suspect.
Source: amNY via Loudlabs NYC video report
Her father went looking for her, reports say
ABC7 reported that the woman's father went out looking for her after she failed to return home and found her injured, according to a summary of the station's reporting. Police sources told the New York Post that she had been training for the TCS New York City Marathon, which runs through all five boroughs on Sunday, November 1 — two days after the attack. The NYPD has not released her name, and on Saturday, October 31, a department spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that she remained alive.
Source: ABC7 / New York Post reporting summarised by Sura Daily News
A huge search along the waterfront
The response was one of the largest for a single assault in the area this year. News 12 Brooklyn reported that police deployed drones and searched the waterfront, including areas of tall grass and the water itself. ABC7 reported that specialised NYPD teams — aviation, K-9 and scuba units — assisted at the scene, and video from the path showed a Crime Scene Unit van, detectives working behind yellow tape, a K-9 officer searching the grass and a boat with flashing lights on the water below, with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the background. Despite the search, no arrest had been announced as of Saturday night.
Source: News 12 Brooklyn / ABC7 via Sura Daily News
What is solid
- NYPD has confirmed a 28-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times in the neck on the Shore Parkway Greenway on the evening of October 30 and taken to NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn in critical condition.
- An NYPD spokesperson confirmed on Saturday, October 31 that she remained alive; her identity has not been released.
- No suspect has been publicly identified, no arrest has been announced, and police have not stated a motive.
What is only claimed
- The New York Post, citing police sources, reported she had been declared brain-dead. That claim has NOT appeared in the NYPD's public statements, which describe her as alive and critical — readers should treat the prognosis as unconfirmed until the NYPD or the hospital states it officially.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip through the Crime Stoppers website or the @NYPDTips account. Tips can be given anonymously.
The place: a busy running route beside the Belt Parkway
The Shore Parkway Greenway is one of southern Brooklyn's most-used exercise routes — a waterfront walking, running and cycling path that runs alongside the Belt Parkway through Bath Beach and Bensonhurst, overlooking Gravesend Bay, Staten Island and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. On any mild evening it carries a steady stream of runners, walkers and cyclists, which is part of why an attack in the dark, at about 8:15 p.m. on a Friday, has shaken the neighbourhood. NYPD figures for the 62nd Precinct, which covers the area, show overall crime roughly flat this year — down 0.5 percent as of October 25 — but felony assaults up 17 percent in the most recent data.
Source: NYPD 62nd Precinct figures via Capitalism Institute summary
Why this matters beyond Bath Beach
The attack lands on the city's biggest running weekend of the year: tens of thousands of marathon runners, including many from the New York–New Jersey Punjabi community, have been logging final training miles on exactly this kind of waterfront path. For evening runners the practical questions are immediate — how well lit the greenway is after dark, how often it is patrolled, and whether anyone saw the attacker leave the area. Police have not advised closing the path, but the investigation scene and the canvass for video are continuing along it.
What happens next
Detectives are canvassing for surveillance and doorbell video along the greenway and the streets that feed into it, and the NYPD is expected to release a suspect description or images if investigators obtain them. The woman's condition is the next fact that matters: the department's last public word, on Saturday, was that she was alive and critical. Awaaz Punjab will update this story if the NYPD confirms a change in her condition, a suspect description or an arrest — and will not treat the unconfirmed prognosis reports as fact unless officials state them on the record.