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Brooklyn NY Feb 8 2013
A Brooklyn bouncer is recovering from stab wounds sustained when he tried breaking up a brawl.
Officers responding to Nouveau Restaurant on Third Avenue at 3:31 am on Feb. 3 said that the bouncer was stabbed in the buttocks and taken to an area hospital.
This just over a month after a mafia-linked wiseguy knifed another patron at the glossy hangout between 82nd and 83rd streets.
The victim told cops that he was trying to separate brawling patrons when a perp in a hooded sweatshirt came up behind him and jabbed him in the backside with a blade. Video cameras outside showed the cheeky villain fleeing on Third Avenue in the direction of 82nd Street.
The other stabbing happened December. 23 stabbing/
Police detectives say that Nunzio Fusco was stabbed and alleged that it was the work of Battista “Benny” Geritano, an associate of the Gambino crime family. Both knifings occurred during a weekly dance promotion called “The Big Show.”