UPS workers are slashed in subway

An unhinged homeless man slashed two UPS workers with a folding knife during a bloody confrontation on a Midtown subway train early Tuesday, officials said.

The UPS employees were riding a Brooklyn-bound N train to work when Finn Barbuto, 22, started arguing with them as they pulled into the Lexington Ave./59th St. station about 4:45 a.m., according to cops.

As the fight continued, the homeless man whipped out a folding knife and charged the two workers, slashing one in the hand and chest and the other in the wrist and forearm.

“He didn’t say anything, nothing. He stabbed my friend first. I felt what I thought was a punch in the back,” said one of the workers, Dan Baker, 42.

His co-worker, also 42, acted fast.

“My friend then threw his coat over the guy. He knew what to do in a knife fight. I jumped on him. I rushed him and wrestled the knife away from him,” Baker said. He didn’t realize he’d been cut until he started bleeding, he said.

They held Barbuto until police took him into custody, officials said.

Medics took the two victims to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.

“I’ve got 22 stitches in my hand, my elbow and my hip. I didn’t realize I was stabbed until I was wrestling the knife away,” Baker said.

The victims said the attack was unprovoked.