Here’s the Ithaca Minute from 14850 Today for September 4th.

Police say a man is recovering in a regional hospital after four people “approached him and began to punch and kick him without provocation” at about 3am on Friday. Officers responded to the intersection of Cayuga Street and Green Street at 3:11am and spoke to the male victim.

The victim told police he was not familiar with the four attackers, who police are describing at this time only as “four black males.”

The incident came a night before another man was stabbed just off the Ithaca Commons amid a flurry of assaults around downtown.

Police were called at about 7am Saturday and responded to a residence on Cleveland Avenue, where the male victim had fled after an assault he said occurred at about 1am as he walked through Home Dairy Alley, near the Ithaca Commons and the Green Street Parking Garage.

The victim told police he had been “confronted by at least four suspects who assaulted him unprovoked.” He ran to a friend’s residence on Cleveland Avenue and fell asleep, but woke up to realize he had been stabbed.

Tompkins County curbside recycling is delayed one day for the rest of this week following the Labor Day holiday. If your recycling pickup would have been Tuesday, it’s now Wednesday, and so on.

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