Fatal stabbing in a Bronx apartment bldg. where violence is ‘not unusual’

A man was fatally stabbed in a Bronx apartment early Monday, police and neighbors said.

Neighbors said they’ve been hearing fighting and yelling from the third-floor apartment in their building on Sheridan Ave. near E. 164th St. for several months; the persistent rancor gave way to bloodshed about 7:45 a.m.

Cops arrived at the building to find Edwin Acevedo, 30, knifed in the abdomen, police said. Medics rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released.

“They’re always fighting there, every day,” neighbor Maria Luna, 37, said in Spanish. “We’re scared because we have kids. We don’t open the door.”

The apartment’s residents moved in less than a year ago and it’s been bedlam ever since, Luna said. Arguments erupt at all hours of the day — including 3 a.m. — and Luna’s family has been awakened in the middle of the night by banging, she told the Daily News.

“Because of that, we complained, because our older daughters have to go out to go to school,” she said. Building management sent notices to the apartment’s problematic residence, but that didn’t quiet them down, she said.

Police officers guarded the door to the apartment Monday afternoon.

The suspect, believed to be a 36-yearold man, fled and was being sought. It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the violence.

Another neighbor, who didn’t give her name, saw medics working on Acevedo as they took him to an ambulance.

“They were giving him CPR, he didn’t look good,” she said, mentioning that she saw blood on his sneakers.

“It’s not unusual,” she said about violence in the building. “Rooms are rented out, you don’t even know who’s coming and going.”