DOA Under L Train At 1st Ave & 14th Street

I'm happy there are still human conductors to stop the train when something like this happens. How do the fancy computer controllers know if they're squishing something? Is this the only reason the MTA keeps the conductors on the New-fangled trains?

Nice try, but conductors do not drive the train, they just open/close the doors and make the announcements from a booth in a car in the middle of the train.

The operator drives the train. The conductor-less trains have only an operator who does both jobs. There are no computer-controlled trains in the NYC fleet.

THANK YOU for the clarification.

Somewhere along the nearly 700 miles of active subway track, someone gets killed about once a week, I remember reading somewhere. It's unreported because it happens so often. Those mysterious "police investigation" delays are nearly always from a jumper.

They say something that has a one-in-a-million chance of happening happens eight times a day in New York.

Whoops. I looked it up just now, and I over-estimated the frequency of subway suicides. It's actually one suicide every *two* weeks, not every week: http://apha.confex.com/apha/134am/techprogram/paper_133195.htm

I don't want you to beat yourself up about this. You didn't specify suicides in the first post, so there could be one suicide one week, one accidental death the next. Or two suicides one week, no accidents for two. The possibilities appear to be endless in this one death per week.

Just rode the L from Lorimer to Union Sq. Seemed a little delayed. But running.

Several years ago, I was on an F train in Brooklyn pulling out of a station when, without warning, a homeless man fell on to the tracks. The train operator in the front car heard a thud and must have thought he hit the guy. The cry he let out at that moment chilled me and will never leave my memory. I guess it is every train operator's worst fear..hitting a jumper or being responsible for a crash. In that case, the train stopped before running over the guy...just barely.

No L train until 5pm and MTA's website shows no service advisories for the L. Keep up the good work, MTA, thanks for keeping us informed.

I was on the train that hit him. We were Manhattan bound, and stopped in the middle of the tunnel between Bedford and 1st ave. They announced there was an injury and we all had to walk through and off the train at first ave.

It's so tragic. My thoughts are with those who knew him today.

It was actually an out of service train that the guy must have jumped in front of.

that makes no sense: 'it was actually' and 'must have' don't go in the same sentence.

Sorry. "It was actually" referred to the specific train you questioned. "Must have" was used to indicate an assumption as to what caused the accident.... I apologize if multiple objects in one sentence are too confusing for you. I also cant believe I am responding to a criticism from a person that managed placement of over 20 one syllable words in one sentence.

I was among one of the handful of others at about 10:40 this morning waiting when this happened but still am unclear as to why there was a Brooklyn-bound train on the 8th Ave.-bound side. Workers were inspecting underneath the train, with the train's rear red lights facing west toward 8th Ave. Anyone know anything?

Very, very sad.

Also, as an FYI, signs at the L train entrances are saying that the L train won't be running again until 5pm.

That was a real tasteless joke that wasn't even funny. This guy could have had a family or people who loved him. Real poor form moron. Gothamist: If you have any pictures I would love to check it out. Please post.

Was the accused tasteless joke deep sixed by the censors? The way it appears on my screen, Dead Himmler's post is the first one that I can read.

Yes it was, and to be honest, it wasn't nearly as tasteless as Dead Himmler asking for pics of the gruesomeness to be posted, hence the irony.

That was a pretty damn funny and ironic post. Good job!

On another note, it's stories like this that show just how selfish people are that commit suicide. He/she could have done it in any other way that did not negatively affect others. But no, he/she decided in his/her own hubris to make sure that his/her death was (a) broadcasted to all and (b) delayed public transportation in a major metropolitan area.

Quite a number of people need the help of mental health professionals yet cannot avail themselves of it, whether due to cost or insufficient levels of service providers. Sometimes, these people suffer in silence. Other times, they damage the lives of others. In a few cases, they do something as visible and seemingly selfish as this appears to have been. The person who has moved to the ultimate stage of suicidal thinking will not have much concern for the after-effects that others experience because their pain - their anguish is so overwhelming that they seek to escape it as definitively as possible. It's unfortunate that some would castigate such an individual without taking a moment to consider what led that person to such a desperate state of mind.

"It's unfortunate that some would castigate such an individual without taking a moment to consider what led that person to such a desperate state of mind."

Who says I didn't take a moment to consider what led this person to do what they did. In fact, like most of the planet, I've considered suicide too. My problem is that I'm not a selfish jerk nor am I the type of person to moan and groan because I "cannot avail myself of mental health professionals, whether due to cost or insufficient levels of service providers." That is a completely bullshit excuse. Even without the supposed panacea of universal health care, there are free clinics in ALL major metropolitan areas that provide the services this individual needed.

We've all been at the depths of dispair at some point in our lives. What we choose to do about it is what defines us. This person was selfish. Plain and simple.

you're an idiot.

this person is obviously incredibly sick/depressed/distraught. do you really think that rational thoughts such as 'selfishness' and 'negatively affecting others' are even on his radar? you can't compare your thought process to theirs.

And you're a sad, pathetic person who never has anything worthy to add to the conversation.

agreed. this person must've been in extreme pain as to take such actions. those who think otherwise are fooling themselves or else incapable of empathy.