Surveillance video showed the child walking with an adult 10 minutes earlier on Leggett Avenue.
The two men managed to hold Barbuto at the 59th Street-Lexington Avenue station until officers arrived. Police said one of the victims threw his UPS jacket over the suspect, disorienting him
Barbuto is charged with two counts of assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. He was undergoing psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital.
The victims were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital for treatment of superficial wounds.
A knife was recovered from the scene.
Statistics show that at least one person is attacked in the New York City Transit System every day. Donna Barreiro, a nurse anesthetist who takes the subway to and from work, does what she can not to be one of them.
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