A woman was slashed Wednesday night on the subway in Lower Manhattan. Police say it was the second knife attack in the subway in two days.They come as the latest crime statistics released by the NYPD on Wednesday show a 7.

A 29-year-old woman was slashed on a No. 3 train by a man wearing a face mask, according to the NYPD. The attack happened just after 11 p.m. Wednesday as a northbound train was pulling into Wall Street station,

The back-to-back violence comes as police scale down the number of cops underground from 300 overnight patrols to 200, officials said.