For Two Days, Slashers Randomly Terrorized Manhattan

The man accused of slashing a Danish tourist in the face in a wealthy part of the Upper West Side was turned in by his mother.

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Surveillance video is believed to show Joshua Zinberg just after he slashed the face of a Danish tourist on New York's Upper West Side. NYPD

A series of savage slashings — three of them fatal — have sent shivers through Manhattan this week.

A Wednesday morning stroll along a posh Upper West Side sidewalk proved near deadly for a tourist in town from Denmark. 

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