Man, 39, stabbed to death during Times Square fight, three men sought ⁠16%

By Thomas Tracy⁠42%

5/5/2026, 12:23:52 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Negativity Bias, and Anchoring Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 54.7% saturation with 81 hits. Analysis detected 352 faulty-reasoning hits from 148 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 31.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠16% (18,501 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.50% of the article peer group.

A 39-year-old man was stabbed to death during a clash with three men in Times Square, police said Tuesday. 
The victim was outside Burger & Lobster, a restaurant on W. 43rd St. near Seventh Ave., when he got into an argument with his attackers about 11:30 p.m., cops said. 
As the quarrel escalated, one of the three assailants knifed the victim in the face, torso, and back. 
Medics rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital but he could not be saved. 
His name was not immediately released. 
The three attackers ran off east on W. 43rd St. toward Bryant Park. 
One of the men was dressed all in black, police said. 
No arrests have been made. 
Cops on Tuesday were scouring the area for surveillance footage that could help them track down and identify the three suspects. 
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148 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers55%attributed speech67writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coveragepolice • 19 words • 100.0% coveragecops • 30 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coveragepolice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coveragecops • 21 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

cops

100%flagged-word coverage
51 attributed words63% of attributed speech72% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%cops: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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