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An off-duty detective stabbed in the Bronx, live from the scene on FOX 5

Stephanie Bertini reported from the Bronx after Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed the attack, and the comment section filled faster than anything the station usually sees.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 59,824 views a day, 21 times a normal first day on this channel (2,848).

Off-duty detective stabbed several times in the BronxOff-duty detective stabbed several times in the Bronx

FOX 5 New York sent reporter Stephanie Bertini to the Bronx after an off-duty NYPD detective was stabbed several times. Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed the attack, the station's description says, and Bertini's report came live from the scene.

The clip, "Off-duty detective stabbed several times in the Bronx," passed 25,000 views in its first seven hours. A regular FOX 5 video usually finishes its entire first day with fewer than 3,000. The comments moved faster still: more than 200 in those seven hours, on a channel where a new video normally collects only a handful in a day.

Most of the conversation is less about the report itself than about the city. Many viewers ask how safe New York really is, and whether crime is truly falling. Others raise practical questions: whether the detective was armed while off duty, and whether police have released a description of the attackers.

The same day, the station also posted its hour-long special on the 25th Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk, which went ahead through a Nor'easter's wind and rain. It also posted a lighter segment on a new website that claims to tell you whether you are a "real New Yorker." Neither came close to the Bronx report, which carried the channel's day almost on its own.

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The facts
Subscribers
1,000,000
Channel views, last 7 days
4,773,661
Channel views, pace per day
1,161,386 (on a normal day: 684,576)
Video published
October 2, 2026
Video views so far
25,351 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
59,824

The numbers

One breaking-news report from the Bronx pulled far more viewers and comments than a FOX 5 video usually does in its first day.

the video's first day
usual first day here
2,848
this video
59,824
subscribers
1,000,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
728,785,893
views per day
1,161,386
typical day: 684,576
the video
views
25,351
likes
216
comments
203
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
CBS New York
1,200,000
CBS LA
1,160,000
FOX 13 Tampa Bay
1,080,000
FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
1,020,000
FOX 5 New York
1,000,000
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
837,000
As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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