Gothamist: Yesterday's 3 Train Stoppage

Ryan

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:26:10 -0500

I was reading an article about new threats against the subway when I got re-routed. Lots of fun.

GWong

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:24:32 -0500

Man, you all beat me to the punch on how L&O-ish this all sounds.

Jen

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:39:53 -0500

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.

Jen W

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:28:04 -0500

Jen, thanks to Gothamist (as well as my own L & O obsession), every tidbit of news I read becomes "ripped from the headlines."

joe s

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:08:50 -0500

The News reports it as a "badly mangled body strewn across the tracks".

Jen

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:41:45 -0500

Body parts (so far) on the subway tracks, not platform. I'm totally expecting a L&O episode out of this.

e.

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:26:18 -0500

Were they on the tracks or the platform? And there were just parts, not a whole body? How disturbing...

joe s

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:11:03 -0500

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.

Frankenstein

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:06:27 -0500

Good thing I took a taxi, then.