Postal Worker Fatally Stabbed on the Job in New York Deli

U.S. Postal Service mail vehicles sit in a parking lot at a mail distribution center in San Francisco on Feb. 18, 2015. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

NEW YORK—A postal worker was stabbed to death in a New York City deli Thursday afternoon, and police said they have a person of interest in custody.

While on duty, the postal employee was attacked at roughly 2:30 p.m. at a business on Harlem’s Lenox Avenue, according to police. The thoroughfare also is called Malcolm X Boulevard.