Newburgh woman charged after Broadway fight leads to stabbing

A fight behind 128 Broadway in Newburgh escalated into a stabbing case after police said the injured woman was taken to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital and the other woman was later charged.

City of Newburgh police said officers were called to the hospital at about 5 p.m. Thursday, April 23, after a report of a fight. Their investigation traced the confrontation back to the rear of 128 Broadway, where police said two women got into an altercation and one was stabbed.

Police identified the suspect as Kristna Manning, 27, of the City of Newburgh. She was charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, and third-degree assault, a misdemeanor. The victim was treated at the hospital and released, a sign that the injury required medical attention but was not described as life-threatening.

The case places one of Newburgh’s busiest corridors, Broadway, at the center of a fast-moving police response that began with an injury report at the hospital and ended with criminal charges. The fight did not unfold in a vacuum. It moved from a rear-area confrontation at a city address into a medical setting where officers were able to connect the wound to the earlier dispute.

Court information, including the name of Manning’s attorney, was not immediately available. The underlying reason for the fight was also not disclosed, leaving the public record focused on the alleged violence itself rather than what triggered it.

For Newburgh police, the case fits into the department’s routine record-keeping system. The City of Newburgh Police Department says its Records Division maintains incident reports and arrest reports, and the department’s weekly arrest list is publicly posted online. The department says it has 69 sworn officers and 59 non-sworn staff, a snapshot of the force handling cases ranging from street disputes to more serious felony complaints.

In a city where even a two-person confrontation can quickly become a weapons case, the Broadway incident underscores how a local dispute can move from the street to the emergency room in minutes, and then into the criminal courts.