NEW YORK - A half dozen young men were shot or stabbed on New York City streets at the start of another weekend with unseasonably warm temperatures that kept people outdoors.

Jose Batista, 15, was a block away from his Harlem home just before 9 p.m. Friday when he and another youth were shot in the abdomen, police said.

Batista was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The other victim, whose name was not immediately released, was in stable condition.

About an hour later in Queens' East Elmhurst neighborhood, police aided a 30-year-old man who had been critically wounded by someone with a knife. Just before midnight, a 35-year-old man was shot in the leg at a public housing complex in Brooklyn's Fort Greene area.

The last attack of the night came at about 3 a.m. in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, where two young men were hit by multiple gunshots. The victims, both 18, were hospitalized in critical condition. One had wounds to the head and torso. The other had been shot in the neck.

It was a rough night for the city in what has generally been a good year.

Through Oct. 14, the police department had reported 372 murders, down from 451 during the same period a year ago. If that trend holds, New York City could be on pace to have its fewest killings since the early 1960s.