L-TRAIN WOMAN SLASHED

Samaritan also knifed

A hateful creep slashed a woman on a Manhattan subway after she rejected his advances — and then turned his blade on a good Samaritan who came to her aid, police said Wednesday.

The knife-wielding brute apparently got enraged when the 28-year-old woman ignored him on an Eighth Avenue-bound L train shortly before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

He pounced on her, slashing her face — while shouting anti-Muslim slurs, according to cops, who said the attack could ultimately be classified as a hate crime.

The assault prompted a 29year-old bystander to jump in to help the woman — only to get slashed himself, police said.

The would-be hero was left with several gashes to the head after he tried to grab the assailant, who turned on him, according to cops.

The suspect fled, police said, leaving behind a gruesome, bloody scene on the platform at the Union Square station.

Both victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-lifethreatening injures.

Cops did not divulge details of the anti-Muslim slur, but said the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force has been notified of the incident.

The slashing was one of two attacks on the transit system that took place within just 30 minutes of each other, police said.

In an earlier incident, police said a 34-year-old straphanger got into a dispute with a stranger who tried to rob him aboard an F train near the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station around 10:25 p.m.

The victim was on a southbound train when he was approached by his attacker, who asked for a cigarette and then tried to rob him, cops said.

As the two men fought, the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim twice in the stomach.

When the train pulled into the station, the tussle spilled onto the platform, where the attacker stabbed the man again before taking off.

That victim was also taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries, according to police.

Police said he managed to foil the robbery and his attacker got away with nothing — and remains on the lam.

The attacks are just the latest of the monthslong uptick in transit violence in the Big Apple that has prompted city officials to deploy more cops underground.