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The uptown 3 train was completely stopped and uptown 2 was re-routed when a 3 train engineer noticed body parts at the 116th Street station. Police are investigating the incident, which caused some commuting issues during yesterday afternoon and evening's rush hour (Gothamist can personally attest to this). The NY Times (print edition) reported that the body parts were so mutilated that investigators were unable to determine the gender.
Upon hearing the engineer telling passengers about the train issues on a local from Times Square ("Passengers, there is a police investigation at 116th Street..."), tourists mouthed, "Police investigation?!" to each other and laughed nervously. Tourists, you're not the only ones.
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Good thing I took a taxi, then.
Ah, I was wondering what was going on. When I got home last night (I live at 116th and Lenox), there was a medical examiner vehicle outside our building, but no police. About a half hour later there were all sorts of police, fire, ambulance, and news vehicles. The only mention I could find on the news was a confused transit report that said downtown 3 trains weren't running from 149th to 106th (there is no station at 106th), and uptown 2, but not 3, trains were diverted to the 5 line.
Were they on the tracks or the platform? And there were just parts, not a whole body? How disturbing...
Body parts (so far) on the subway tracks, not platform.
I'm totally expecting a L&O episode out of this.
The News reports it as a "badly mangled body strewn across the tracks".
Jen, thanks to Gothamist (as well as my own L & O obsession), every tidbit of news I read becomes "ripped from the headlines."
joe, thanks for the DN link. The Post didn't seem to have anything.
And for L&O, I am thinking that body parts are deposited at the tracks, and the detectives have to trace them back. ME Rodgers has to figure out the gender, etc.
Man, you all beat me to the punch on how L&O-ish this all sounds.
I was reading an article about new threats against the subway when I got re-routed. Lots of fun.