Woman Critically Stabbed in Neck While Jogging in Brooklyn

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Friday, October 31, 2026, a 28-year-old woman was discovered by family members lying unresponsive in the grass near the corner of Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue in the Bath Beach neighbourhood of Brooklyn. She had been jogging when she failed to appear at their planned meeting point; her family went searching and found her with a critical stab wound to her neck. Emergency responders rushed her to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Police opened an investigation but as of late Friday had made no arrests and released no description of a suspect. The incident heightened safety concerns along Brooklyn's waterfront paths and bike lanes, which have also recently been the scene of a fatal pedestrian crash involving a sanitation truck just blocks away on Bay Parkway. The Halloween timing drew particular attention from residents and elected officials.