New York Values

As blood poured from his gut, the straphanger stabbed for his iPhone on a Brooklyn subway called out for help, but instead, his fellow commuters cleared out of his train car. “He asked for help and nobody wanted to help him,” a cousin of Efrain Guaman told the Daily News at New York Methodist Hospital Saturday, where Guaman was recovering from emergency surgery after an unhinged mugger jammed a knife into his stomach Friday. “Instead, people just ran out of the train,” the heartbroken cousin said. “They just left him there.” Guaman, a 33-year-old electronics store clerk, held his phone in his hand at 11:30 a.m. as he rode an N train from Elmhurst, Queens, to his father’s store in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. As the train approached the Pacific St. station, an 18-year-old with a thin build and sporting a neck tattoo ran up to him. “Give me your phone or I’ll stab you,” the antsy crook seethed, according to witnesses. Guaman tried to put the phone into his pocket, but the thief was adamant. “As the man kept demanding it, the (crook) pulled out his knife and just stabbed him,” Guaman’s cousin said. The mugger ran off with the phone. He was still being sought Saturday. Guaman asked for help, and finding none, he labored toward the train’s emergency alarm button, and hit it, said his cousin, who wished not to be named. “Then another person came on the train and helped him onto the platform.” he said. “At that point, he was bleeding on the platform.”