It was sometime after a man allegedly faked getting hit by a car and before he dabbed his wounds with a pizza parlor's napkins that an Upper East Side stabbing started getting a little weird.
During an arranged sexual encounter Tuesday evening, the 27-year-old victim, who was not identified by police, was stabbed during an argument in a second-floor apartment at 1278 First Ave., police said.
The victim had been in an apartment that police said was used by two illegal tenants to set up sexual rendezvous for money through the Internet.
Investigators were still trying to sort out what led to the violence, but police said that after he was stabbed, the victim ran outside and laid down in the middle of First Avenue.
He then hopped up and walked into Famiglia, a pizza place a couple of doors down. He told the employees behind the counter that he had been hit by a car and begin to stanch his stab wounds with napkins, police and witnesses said. When he asked to use the bathroom, the employees called 911.