TIMES SQ. TOURIST SLASHED

Robbed in terrible trio attack

A Maryland tourist was smashed in the head with a bottle, slashed across the face and robbed in Times Square over the weekend — the latest Big Apple attack on an unsuspecting outof-towner.

The 30-year-old victim was outside the CVS at 1440 Broadway in Manhattan around 4:30 a.m. Saturday when he was approached by two men and a woman, police sources told The Post.

The three of them tried to get the victim to buy drugs, then the woman propositioned him for sex, sources said.

When the tourist refused both offers, one of the suspects hit him in the head with a bottle and slashed him across the face with a sharp object, the sources said.

He then ran off with $140, the sources said.

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he needed 16 stitches to close the gash across his right cheek, the sources said.

The incident comes after a visitor from Denmark was shot on the Upper West Side last month for refusing to give up his valuables to an armed thief.

The 31-year-old European tourist was at West 103rd Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan around 3:30 a.m. Sept. 18 when he “just kept walking” as the robber demanded his cellphone and cash, police said.

Earlier last month, a 30-yearold tourist from Belgium also was slashed in the face in an unprovoked attack at a Chelsea subway station in Manhattan, police said.

On Sept. 1, a 21-year-old Big Apple visitor from St. Louis was attacked and raped at a Times Square subway station around 3 a.m., police said.

Earlier in the year, a tourist from Saudi Arabia was robbed at gunpoint on Fifth Avenue near Central Park in Manhattan while returning to his hotel.

The two robbers grabbed the 21-year-old victim’s cellphone and fled.

A 13-year-old tourist from Illinois also was brazenly groped in broad daylight in Midtown over the summer while walking with her parents.

NYPD stats released last week showed that most major crimes in the city are up more than 33% overall as of Sept. 25 compared to the same time span last year.

Despite the dip in shootings over 2021, robberies have spiked by 37.3%, and grand larcenies have jumped up by more than 43% over last year.

“I don’t feel safer,” John Jay College Criminal Justice Professor Maria Haberfield, a former Israeli police lieutenant, told The Post last week. “I don’t feel safe in the city, and I don’t think anyone does.”