A man who officials say carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan has been charged with three counts of murder.

A knife-wielding assailant killed two men and a woman during an hourslong, seemingly "unprovoked" stabbing spree through the streets of New York City on Monday, authorities said. The two slain men — attacked near 444 W.

Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody after he was found with blood on his clothes and two kitchen knives, authorities said.

The man accused of killing three people in a grisly stabbing spree on Monday had been released from New York City jail a month earlier and was free on bail for other alleged crimes in New Jersey, records showed.