Person Fatally Struck by Subway in Brooklyn

2008_10_unstreet.jpgPolice are investigating the death of someone hit by a subway at the Union Street Station in Brooklyn. The person was struck by a southbound N train, and WABC 7 reports that a witness says the victim, apparently a male, was "pushed onto the tracks" just after 5 a.m. Currently, there are delays: NYC Transit says Bay Parkway-bound M and Bay Ridge-bound R trains are running on the N line from the Pacific Street Station to the 36th Street Station. Also, expect delays on the D, M, N and R train. [Photo by Wally G]

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Nightmare!

Watch your backs and stay alert on those platforms folks! I see way too many people standing near the edge, nose in a book or newspaper, iPod in the ears, no idea what sort of characters are lurking near them. They're sitting ducks for any psycho.

Sad. This is a station where the train travels in only one direction, so you can stand against the wall (and see everything going on around you). Even some of the stations configured this way (I'm thinking of Canal Street) are accidents waiting to happen, in that they have narrow platforms and are always busy. Can't help speculating that this was an interpersonal dispute in which the parties knew each other, but maybe I just need to think that in order to get on the train every day and at all hours.

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