Adventures in Commuting: Man Falls Through Subway Grate

Women in heels and skirts know to steer clear of sidewalk subway gratings, as do most people averse to fetid gusts of air from beneath the city’s streets. But sometimes when you’re rushing down a crowded sidewalk, you take your chances. And sometimes you fall in, as happened this morning to a man who crashed through a subway grate at the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Marcy in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The victim was rescued and taken to Kings County Hospital; the extent of his injuries is unclear, but last year a woman fell through a sidewalk grate on 52nd Street and lived to tell the terrifying tale.

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By John Del Signore in News on August 8, 2008 11:30 AM

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pete

grates are great, makes you remember there is a world beneath your feet

emilydickinson

That is my worst nightmare come true. I have brazenly walked on those my whole life and actually scoffed at those who would walk around as paranoid. Now, I'm doomed.

carl_sagan

"lived to tell the terrifying tale"...what is this? Tales from the Crypt?

UnrepentantFenian

Don't forget to avoid those things, sarahlucy.

SP

salad beat me to it. cha-ching! a few broken bones and a morphine drip would be worth the payoff. the morphine drip alone, come to think of it...

schizofriendly

I like salad's philosophy...

sarahlucy

ah! that's down the street from me! was just there this morning, yikes. remind me to avoid those things.

zodak

i blame the CHUD

ed_Extinct

The man was probably overweight.

and you're probably an idiot. ;P

robingee

Grates and those sidewalk-doors.

salad

You fall through a subway grate and you've won the lottery - either the city pays out, or you finally shuffle off this mortal coil; it's a win-win situation. I walk on grates every chance i get.