A woman in her 40s was stabbed to death in Queens on Saturday night in what is the year’s first known homicide for the Big Apple, law enforcement sources said.
The woman was found with multiple stab wounds on the street at 21st Street and Broadway in Astoria around 8:50 p.m., sources said.
A woman in her 40s was found stabbed to death on the street at 21st St. and Broadway around 8:50 p.m., law enforcement sources said.
The deadly New Year’s Day attack marked the first reported homicide of the young year in the five boroughs, the NYPD said.
The circumstances around the stabbing were unclear, according to police.
In 2021, the city recorded recorded 485 murders, a 4 percent increase from the 468 tallied in 2020, sources said. The NYPD had not yet officially released its year end crime statistics Saturday.
Despite the slight increase, the murder rate in the city remained much lower than historical highs last year. In 1990, a record high 2,245 murders were recorded.
