Bank of America VP identified as victim in Times Square stabbing

In the middle of one of the world's most traversed intersections, a life was cut short without warning or reason. Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old Bank of America vice president, was fatally stabbed on a Monday afternoon in Times Square — a place that promises spectacle but, on this day, delivered tragedy. Police shot and killed the attacker after a taser failed to stop her advance, leaving the city once again to reckon with the fragility of safety in its most visible spaces. The incident deepens a growing unease about the vulnerability of ordinary life in Manhattan's corridors of commerce and amb