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Man stabbed on Lower East Side — one block from ‘super perp’ knife attack

A man was stabbed on the Lower East Side on Thursday night — about a block from where a “super perp” knifed an Uber Eats deliveryman two days earlier, cops said. 

Thursday’s suspect knifed his 58-year-old victim twice in the back on Allen Street near Delancey Street around 7:10 p.m., cops said. 

The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. 

The suspect ran off and had not been arrested by Friday morning. 

The 58-year-old victim was stabbed twice in the back on Allen Street near Delancey Street, police said.
The 58-year-old victim was stabbed twice in the back on Allen Street near Delancey Street, police said. William C. Lopez/NYPOST

The motive for the attack was not immediately known. 

Photos show police responding outside a smoke shop.

About a block away on Allen Street near Rivington Street, career criminal Sean Cooper, 47, walked up to Bharatbhai Patel, 36, around 3 a.m. Tuesday and tried to rob him, cops and police sources said.

The suspect was still on the lam Friday morning.
The suspect was still on the lam Friday morning. William C. Lopez/NYPOST

The deliveryman clung to his e-bike as Cooper allegedly grabbed at it before stabbing him in the leg and upper back and then fleeing empty-handed, cops said.  

The victim was taken to Bellevue with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

A police official described the suspect as a tenacious “super perp,” noting his slew of 103 previous arrests — which sources said include 16 busts this year alone on petty larceny, burglary or robbery charges. Some of his arrests are sealed.

He was ordered held on $10,000 bail at his Tuesday night arraignment.