New York Daily News

WATER YOU DOING!

2 vendors busted after fight and slash

- BY GRAHAM RAYMAN AND JILLIAN JORGENSEN

Two vendors selling water outside City Hall clashed Tuesday, with one man slashing the other in the arm.

The fracas erupted just after 1 p.m. at Broadway and Warren St. Cops said the two were in a war over sidewalk territory.

One pulled out a utility knife and slashed the other. The injured vendor then yanked out a BB gun and menaced his attacker with it.

Cops swept in and arrested both of the men.

Two women were also detained for questionin­g.

Police bundled the shirtless victim, who had one arm heavily bandaged, into an ambulance.

“I'm OK. I'm OK. I'm all right, baby,” he told the Daily News as police hoisted him into the vehicle. “Over the water.”

Charges were still pending Tuesday evening.

NYPD sources identified the slashing victim as Shamone Brown, 37.

The man accused of stabbing him is Matthew Small, 40, sources said.

The skirmish happened in the walkway between the back of City Hall and Tweed Courthouse, which runs from Broadway to Park Row.

Cara Kent, 17, and her mom Shana Kent, 46, were having lunch on a nearby bench when the fighting began.

“They were getting really mad at each other and pushing around each other,” Cara said. “This one lady was trying to break them apart. Then a couple of seconds later the cops came running up and a cop had a gun pulled and so we started running.”

Neither of the women saw the vendors brandish a firearm.

“I heard them say, ‘Look he's got a gun,' ” Shana Kent said.

“It was wrapped up in something, so you couldn't see it with the naked eye,” Cara Kent said.

As soon as the police arrived, the slashed vendor took off his shirt.

“They guy started stripping,” Shana Kent said, “and saying I want help, I want help.”

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JEFFERSON SIEGEL/DAILY NEWS A man (top) was slashed in arm in City Hall Park melee. Others (above) are led away by cops.
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