A Brazilian tourist with a layover in New York City took an excursion t🍃🦋o Central Park — and was stabbed in the back Sunday while snapping photos of Trump International Hotel and Tower, sources told The Post.
Martins Machato, 23, had been spending a day in the city before a planned Monday flight to Rome when he was attacke🐽d at around 1:30 p.m.
Machato was taking pictures of the massive silver globe sculpture outside the Columbus Circle hotel at 1 Central Park West and never saw his assailant coming, wi𝕴tnesses said.
“T𒁃he guy comes up and hit him and goes away,” said Ahmad Maher, a food-cart worker who saw the stabbing unfold.
Photos show napki🌳ns strewn on the cement walkway to sop up Machato’s blood.
“He look shocked,” Maher, 30, said of the victim.
The attacker 🌄didn’t say a word to his victim before stabbing him and calmly walked away afterw♛ard, Maher said.
It’s the kind of violent tableau that “happens all the time” because there are “a lot of homeless around here,” ꦚMaher said, recalling how he 🌌was recently sucker-punched by another homeless person there.
Machato was hꦕospitalized in serious condition. It was not clear where his travel originated, but sources said he was on a one-day layover in the Big Apple.
The attacker took off down Eighth Avenue and was sti🍸ll being sought by police.
Cops suspected the assailant was homeless.
The bloodshed was th🍌e lꦅatest in a series of gruesome knife attacks in the city.
On Saturday, a deranged ex-con allegedly stabbed a 61-year-old man three times in ♈the gut for refusing to give him money while aboard C train in Harlem.
Other straphangers rushed to intervene, fighting back the alleged attacker, Jamel Purnell, 39, until the train stไopped at the next station, where police were w🌸aiting to arrest him.
And two weeks ago, George Carroll, 42, of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was stabbed to death in front of his horrified wife as the two were walking home.
Police say his accused attacker, Gary Correa, 19, had grabbed a knife and caughtꦐ up with Carroll after a testy exchange on the sidewalk, in which Correa or one of his friends shouted a🔯t the victim, “What are you looking at?”
Correa was arrested two weeks later, jus♛t blocks from the scene.
Additional reporting by Stephanie Pagones