'I thought I was gonna die and nobody helped me': Commuter, 61, who was slashed across the face with a box cutter on New York subway says deranged attacker targeted him at random - a day before de Blasio said city transit is 'safer than ever' Noel Quintana, 61, was on his way to work in Harlem on Wednesday when the unknown attacker kicked his bag and then whipped out a box cutter and slashed him across the face from ear to ear. 'I was scared because I thought I was gonna die and nobody helped me,' Quintana told WABC-TV of the attack. Despite the shocking attack and a recent spate of subway pushing incidents in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio insists that the transit system is safer than ever.
