An Oyster Bay event promoter on trial for manslaughter took the stand in his own defense Friday, acknowledging for the first time that he feared for his life when he stabbed a New Jersey teen outside a Manhattan ax-throwing club in 2023 during a drunken melee.

Gianluca Bordone, 21, told the court that he waved his knife at a group of advancing teens in the early morning hours of Nov. 23 outside the venue Live Axe in TriBeCa, warning them not to come closer after he and his friends had been beaten during a bar brawl.

When they continued to advance on him, he stabbed Rocco Rodden, 17, of Warren, New Jersey, killing him.

Bordone has been charged with manslaughter and two counts of assault.

Bordone, who went to Roslyn High School, had taken the Long Island Rail Road into the city the nig

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