Bus Driver Slashed by Woman's jealous Boyfriend in Brooklyn

A bus driver says he’s not sure he wants to get back behind the wheel after an unhinged lunatic slashed him across the face while he waited for his bus to get fixed on Saturday night in Brooklyn.

“I'm concerned about going back,” John Browne, 43, said, running his fingers across the six-inch cut across the left side of the jaw. “I could have lost my life. I have a family."

The father-of-seven was in uniform outside his B35 bus waiting for mechanical assistance around 10:45 p.m. near Mother Gaston Blvd. and Hegeman Ave. in Brownsville when a man and woman exited a car, he said. 

The man yelled, “What are you looking at?” Browne said. 

“He kept walking towards me, saying, ‘I'm talking to you. What the eff are you looking at?’” he said. 

In a matter of seconds he was face to face with the angry stranger.

“At first I thought he had punched me. I felt the blood coming down and people started yelling, ‘He has a knife!’" he said.

The man ran away, but Browne said he was able to grab hold of the slasher’s female companion until police came.

She smelled of alcohol, but wouldn’t divulge any information about his attacker’s identity, he said.

Browne was treated at Brookdale Hospital and released at 3 a.m. after getting seven stitches on the gash.

Authorities described the knife-wielder as a 5-foot-10 man with a slim build, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

Just last week, another B35 driver was punched in the face and beaten up, a union official said.

Browne said he may ask for a day shift if and when he returns to work. “Driving is my passion, my dream," the former JetBlue rep said. "Most people I drive are good people. This was just random."