Two women slashed during Manhattan subway fight amid surge in violence

Two women were slashed during a fight with a straphanger on a Manhattan train early Friday, according to cops.

The women, 22 and 23, were on board a 3 train at 96th Street on the Upper West Side around 2 a.m. when they got into a squabble with a man in his 40s, police said. The older woman displayed a knife and menaced the man, police said.