NYers HAVE CRIME-SCENE IT ALL

Numbed pedestrians walk past fatal Eighth Ave. stab

New Yorkers are known for minding their own business — but this is just ridiculous.

A bloody brawl broke out in broad daylight on a busy Chelsea street Friday — leaving one man stabbed to death — as grizzled New Yorkers strolled casually by the mayhem, video shows.

The fight began just before 8:15 a.m. in the busy crossing at West 30th Street and Seventh Avenue, where the combatants — a hulking homeless sex offender and a buff guy without a shirt — squared up and started throwing haymakers.

One woman can be seen strolling by in the crossing and barely giving the fisticuffs a glance, but another woman who appeared to be a nurse walks right between the men as the larger combatant holds a knife.

She appears to give them a brief tongue-lashing.

“One lady got in between and told them, ‘Don’t fight,’ ” said a worker at a nearby laundromat who gave his name as Mr. Lee.

The medic’s attempt at peacemaking didn’t work, as moments later, the shirtless Antonio Eggleston, 36, can be seen in the video bleeding in the crosswalk from a stab wound,

with cops frantically trying to save the man’s life.

EMS rushed him to Bellevue Hospital where he died. His name has not been released pending family notification.

The other man, identified by cops as Nisean Graves, was taken into custody and charged with murder Friday afternoon, cops said.

Graves, wearing an all-white jumpsuit, didn’t say a word as police walked him out of the Midtown South Precinct station house to an unmarked NYPD car.

Graves, a 34-year-old homeless man, attacked a person in May 2021 in lower Manhattan, stabbing the victim in both arms, according to a criminal complaint.

A judge sentenced him to a year in jail in June 2021 after he copped to one count of third-degree assault, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

He is also a registered sex offender who served nine years in prison for attempted rape, prison records show. He was released in January 2019.

It was unclear what sparked the violence Friday morning.

Nearby workers who watched the fatal encounter called the rare rush-hour incident “terrible.”

“The homeless man had a knife, and the other gentleman without the shirt was just ducking the knife,” said Gil, a 58year-old man who works in a Chelsea building. “It wasn’t a very big knife. But the guy [victim] wasn’t holding anything back . . . he was standing his ground.”

Lee, the laundromat worker, said the victim was stabbed in the middle of the chest and died in the street.

“He was already dead before he could get to the hospital,” he said a detective told him.

“Blood poured out,” he said, adding, “he fell down in seconds and lots of police showed up. “I’ve never seen blood like that.”