A 34-year-old man holding a large knife to his mother’s neck was shot and critically wounded by an officer inside a Bronx apartment, police said Friday. The Thursday night drama was described by Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera as a tense standoff “in which our officers were confronted with a dangerous and difficult situation and ultimately saved a woman’s life.

A suspect was arrested for allegedly raping a man aboard a subway train in the West Village, according to the NYPD. The victim, 27, was traveling on a northbound No. 1 train just after 4 a.m. on Saturday.