what's all this talk about "not being allowed to leave the booth?" I see station agents outside the booth ALL THE TIME. There are even signs posted in several stations I frequent saying "if I'm not in my booth, look for me in the station, I'm wearing a burgundy coat".

For fear of a ruse?

They don't have a line to the police from the booth? bullshit. what then if they're being assaulted ?

If the train conductor had stayed in the station, i'm sure there were some strapping subway riders ready to save the day. Doesn't just have to be the dispatcher, the train staying there, passengers getting a good look at this guy's face may have scared him off...of her.

It is clear that many of the comments author's will fit the MTA worker profile easily. For this character money is the most important thing -more than dignity, has not empathy for any other than him/her self, and barely does the minimum that is expected, to then only see responsibility on the victim... so shamefully easy, and extremely ignorant it pollutes society...

There you have for the reigh of the individual moron!



There you have for the material that makes everyday New Yorker, not very different that any other corrupt individual.

What about those yellow boxes on the platforms? Customers have access to those emergency buttons. Do they send an alert directly to 911? Don't pay phones connect to 911 even without a deposit? I think it's crazy that station agents are cut off like that.

If you're getting my tax dollars, I FULLY expect your ass to go beyond what is stated in your contract if a felony is being committed on me.

Remember this story and his comments? http://gothamist.com/2009/03/02/robotrain_putting_fear_in_l_train_c.php Oops! Out goes any justification you need for a job!

What do tax dollars have to do with it? You're saying that it should be in an MTA employee's job description to go *beyond* the job description? I think we all hope that someone else will act on our behalf, but you'd hope the same thing of a fellow passenger on the platform or a stranger on the street.

but they will be real quick to call the cops on you if you are taking pictures. but f your raping someone, eh, no problem!

how can that mta worked live with himself?

Well look at all the

brave and courageous hipster

keyboard Charles Bronsons we

got in up this piece!!

And for the one that said in my great grandpa's generation, puhlease. He would have joined in for sloppy seconds.

Weren't lynching done in the hundreds per year in those glorious violence free days??

100 years ago shit like this went down all the time.

Read "Low Life" by Luc Sante

We are now safer than ever, and stuff like this still happens a fraction of the time it happened in the "good old days".

You do realize that one of the oldest tricks in the book is to fake an assault and when the agent leaves the booth the third person swoops in and assaults the agent and robs the booth.

Station Agents haven't left the booth since the 70's

AND...how do you know what the agent saw

Domestics happen all the time, sometimes with the person trying to break it up getting stabbed...by either the man OR THE WOMAN involved.

Basically, the Command Center that the agents called have a direct intercom line to a dedicated police operator who dispatches police to the exact location of the booth.

Try calling 911...after your 5 minutes of the person typing on the computer TRY to explain to them WHAT booth in what part of any station they should respond to.

GOOD LUCK

"You do realize that one of the oldest tricks in the book is to fake an assault and when the agent leaves the booth the third person swoops in and assaults the agent and robs the booth."

Really, that's one of "the oldest tricks in the book?" Could you tell us all, then, when is the last time that's happened? Or how many times it's happened in, say, the last 20 years?

Could you tell us all, then, when is the last time that's happened? Or how many times it's happened in, say, the last 20 years?

My guess? Zero. Since he's already said that Station Agents haven't left the booth since the 70s!

Should we start prescribing Thalidomide for expecting mothers again for morning sickness? After all, it hasn't caused ANY birth defects for over 40 years now!

Nice try, MTA douche. A girl getting raped is hardly a "ruse to rob a booth" and who'd want anything in those booths anyway? Lose the booths, and the MTA sandbags inside them and hire more cops to patrol platforms. A camera would have been as useful as Koort and Cruz, and would have been a better witness. Time to uninstall the meatware!

$1000s of cash in the booth maybe?

If Chance, Koort, and Cruz are all so damned pleased with themselves in hindsight, then they should have no problem providing phone numbers, and email addresses, as well as photos to print out for "pin the tail on the donkeys."

This may have already been commented, but:

WHY IN THE WORLD DO YOU KEEP SHOWING THIS WOMAN'S PHOTO?

Because she's decided to do interviews and pose for photographs. No doubt she hopes that the attention this brings will help someone else, or help result in changes to teh system. I hope so too. But don't criticize Gothamist or any other media outlet for showing her picture or stating her name. It's not as if they went digging for this information, she's chosen to take her story to the press.

Question for the MTA: WTF does JJ Koort do in his booth from Midnight to 8AM for (2007) $49670 plus benefits? Doesn't sell tokens or make change. Doesn't clean the station or service equipment. 21st on the G is a one-line station. Sits in a booth. Woman is getting attacked, then raped, he picks up a phone. And says what, assuming even a basic understanding of the english language? How is the call put out? Disorderly, cries for help, dispute, unruly passenger, intox, or "A FRIGGIN PERSON AS GETTING ATTACKED HERE!". One can only imagine the game of telephone that went on between Koort, "Central Command", 911 operator, then to the NYPD. I think the MTA owes the victim, and the paying public, a very detailed explanation of the "procedure" that was followed, so those of us who do use the system can be aware of issues concerning our safety, and take our own, individual private measures needed to ensure our own wellbeing.

amen.