Stabbing suspect on the loose after man attacked in NYC subway station

A man was rushed to the hospital — with a knife still protruding from his neck — after he was stabbed during a dispute in a Manhattan subway station Saturday morning, cops said.

The victim, 50, was at the West 4th Street-Washington Square Station in the West Village when he got into a fight with another man around 5:40 a.m., cops said.

The man with the knife stabbed the victim from behind, cops said.

The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition with the knife protruding from his neck, cops said. He sufferered serious injuries in the attack and needed emergency surgery, according to police.

The nature of the dispute was unknown, cops said. The perpetrator fled the scene on another train.