NEW YORK POST
A heroic Upper East Side doorman was slashed just inches from his jugular vein while saving a wheelchair-bound resident from an unhinged mugger.
Brian Smith was helping the disabled tenant enter The Fontaine building on East 72nd Street just after 3 a.m. Sunday.
Unbeknownst to either man, a thug dressed in a black sweatshirt, hat, and facemask had been following the tenant back from an ATM near First Avenue, according to people who saw surveillance footage.
The man asked Smith for directions to the subway.
The doorman answered — and was then sliced from nose to cheek.
“I was violated,” a still-healing Smith, 58, told The Post on Friday. “I have no justification for this.”
Smith retreated to the security desk and called 911.
Police responded, along with building superintendent Pedro Ramos.
“I’ve never seen so much blood in my life,” Ramos said.
Smith was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he needed more than 20 stitches to close the nine-inch gash.
“They had to sew an artery back together,” Smith said.
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