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Stand clear of the platform edge and then some: A 14-year-old boy fell into the tracks at the Kings Highway subway station when the platform partially collapsed. Avi Katz was able to get away before the approaching Q train made it into the station.
Katz had been at the station around 6PM on January 29 and, per WABC 7, "stepped onto the edge of the platform to see if his train was coming." The platform, made of wood, cracked and Katz fell three feet into the tracks. Katz, accompanied by his mother and Assemblyman Dov Hikind, spoke at a press conference, "I was laying on the tracks and I was really scared. My yarmulke fell off and I didn't even care. I saw the train coming and all I could think was, 'Get up, get up - this isn't how I want to die.'"
Katz said it was hard for him to get up and after three attempts, he managed to get back to the platform. Though the MTA did patch up the platform, Hikind questioned the MTA's commitment to maintenance; pointing to the decrepit conditions (per WCBS 2, "crumbling concrete, rotted wood, and burned-out lightbulbs"), he asked, "This is our transit system that we spend billions and billions of dollars for it to look like this, at one of the busiest transit stations?"
And right now, Katz is too scared to take the subway: "I just, every single time I see the train pass by I'm thinking about me on the tracks."
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Hence "Please stand behind the yellow line and away from the platform edge"
"My yarmulke fell off and I didn't even care."
This is bad, but I lol'd at this sentence.
This station is one that I used for much of my youth, so I'm well familiar with the neighborhood, and I'm not sure its any more decrepit than any other station.
Now he's too scared to take the subway? What a wimp! He sounded like a good candidate for the Darwin Award. So close!
I test those yellow wood-and-sometimes-plastic edges at subway stops all over NYC and about 40-50% of random places i stop to wait for trains are dangerously brittle, un-secured, and could break with someone's full weight.
Be careful out there!
I test those yellow wood-and-sometimes-plastic edges at subway stops all over NYC and about 40-50% of random places i stop to wait for trains are dangerously brittle, un-secured, and could break with someone's full weight.
Be careful out there!
Groan. How do you spell L-A-W-S-U-I-T?
South Brooklyn's stations all get the shaft. The level of decrepitude is truly appalling.
along with con ed, i think it's time federal investigators are brought in.
"My yarmulke fell off and I didn't even care."
I thought that was adorable. Maybe he'll grow up to feel less obligated to such things.
how do you really feel, edEx?
edEx, again please!
it was doing the same internal error for me, but you took the bait!
edEx, just so I'm clear...you think it's time federal investigators are brought in?
Anyhow: where's Deanna Banks when you need her?
-captain dan
edEx, again please!
it was doing the same internal error for me, but you took the bait!
dude! that's an internal server issue that gothamist needs to fix.
Oy Vey!
Y'all should've figured out by now that even when you get that error, your post still goes through.
i smell lawsuit and fare hikes
there is a fed involved,
he tattled to noah (spelling?) dear. He's the Jewish John liu.
Kind of hard to tell from the pics, but it looks like there are several errors here. The original problem is that the concrete platform is incorrectly sized in some places (it should be the width of the section with yellow striping). In places where the width is inadequate, it looks like they built out with a 2x8, or similar, with the wide end up. Not sure how those are supported. Then it appears the rub rail is composed of 1x3, also with the wide end up and unknown supports.
A better procedure, aside from making the platforms the correct width to begin with, would be to lay several 2x's rotated 90 degrees (that is, with the short side facing up), then bolt through all of them into the platform.
i live in Chelsea and the same thing nearly happened to me yesterday at the 28th Street C,E station on 8th Avenue. the uptown side has the same wooden beams attached to the end of the platform and they too are ready to fall off. similar to this kid, i looked down the track to see if my train was approaching and i began to feel the wood to give way under my foot. fortunately, i didn't fall in but wood is just about ready to give way.
MTA should check this out pronto.
After seeing a guy get run over and killed by a train a few months ago, I'll tell you what- I never stand close enough to fall onto the tracks anymore. The train isn't gonna come any faster by my dangling precariously on the ledge.
um..the rest of the *modern* world has these fancy LED displays that tell you that the next train is coming in 3 minutes and the one after that is coming in 6 minutes.
Then retards don't have to stick their stupid melons over the platform edge.
But alas, our trains still being pulled by mules.
There is no 28th Street C, E station, smh. Sorry. That might be the problem.
tblake - ding ding ding, we have a winner
I was at a station a month ago where a guy leaned out to check if a train was coming, when his leg buckled and he fell on the tracks.
I think the easiest solution here is stay the fuck away from the edge of the platform. The platform doesn't have to be crumbling for you to fall over the edge - you only have to be goddamn stupid enough to lean out over it.