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Photograph of police at 7th Avenue station by Erik Olson
8:28 a.m. NYC Transit has an alert about service along the F line, due to a police investigation: "Jamaica-bound F trains are running on the D line between the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station and the Broadway-Lafayette Station. Select Inwood-bound A trains are running on the F line between the Jay Street-Borough Hall Station and the West 4th Street-Washington Square Station. There is no G train service between the Bedford Avenue-Nostrand Avenue Station and the Church Avenue Station in both directions. Please expect delays in A, F and G train service." We are hearing that someone was struck by a train at 7th Avenue.
Update, 9:06 a.m.: The MTA is now saying, "Following an earlier incident A, F and G train service had resumed with residual delays." Still, a reader snapped this shot outside the Bergen Street station:
Update, 2:23 p.m.: While 1010WINS is reporting that two people were struck (one fatally) by an F-train, NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton tells us that a person was struck and killed by a Queens-bound G train. The train's operator was also taken to the hospital for trauma.
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Yes, it was a pain in the ass today.
School crossing guard at 8th Ave. and 8th St. said it was a jumper. Tragic: for the jumper, the desperation; for the train conductor, the guilt; for the riders, the delay.
Hundreds of Park Slopers were forced to walk three blocks to the 4th Ave. station. Most passed the time by using their Crackberries as they walked, making for a not-so-pretty sight of weaving and bobbing bodies trying to walk and text at the same time.
I think this is why the express 2/3 train ALWAYS slow down to 2mph when it passes 50th St and as it approaches 42nd St. during rush hour. That's the only explanation I have why they keep doing this so that they can stop in time if someone wants to jump in front of a train.
The other day, a big German soccer star stepped in front of a commuter train. It's just a rude choice for ending it all.
i had an iPhone, not a crackberry, thank you very much
Sad to hear for all that were involved. As a rider, I didn't mind the walk to 4th ave. It was a nice November morning at least.
O no park slopers had to walk 3 blocks!!! How sad *sarcasm* Meanwhile at Classon Ave no one said a damn thing about what was going on. I had to go upstairs to find out that no trains were running AND that the ticketbooth clerk was just down right nasty and unhelpful. I had to walk to the stupid C train at Clintion Washington which was a lot more then three blocks...
What's with all the vitriol towards Park Slope residents? I live in Park Slope, and I'm broke – I can't even afford a Blackberry.
I live in Park Slope and have no use for a Blackberry.
My statement wasn't vitriol; it was an observation of a performance art piece I observed as I walked with hundreds of my fellow F train riders to Fourth Ave. At least half of my neighbors were actively blackberrying and, as they used their devices, they swaggered, they swayed, they bumped into each other.
You don't expect an MTA employee to be courteous, do you?
Ahem, those are a long three blocks friend.... And honestly? They're not even on a brownstone lined street...
Relax, Poetofsorts...no need to get nasty since most of us were in the same boat as you. I live in Park Slope and had to walk a lot further than 3 blocks, and the MTA person at the stop was completely unhelpful and not the nicest.
Unfortunately, at Ditmas Avenue (gasp, not in the Slope), the station agent didn't even know what was going on. Thankfully, I get the MTA alerts on my BlackBerry and was able to tell him. It's so unfortunate that he didn't know anything.
I give the station agent major kudos for dealing with the angry customers who I imagine were ALL over the F line this morning.
Situations like these just reinforce the need for clear intercom systems, large subway maps and a New Yorker's need to have a backup plan.
@traci:
Situations like these just reinforce the need for New Yorkers to have accessible, stigma-free mental health services. What desperation would drive a person to jump in front of a moving train to end his life? The psychological post-mortem on a suicide victim is littered with missed opportunities and missed signals.
I seriously hope that train ran his ass over real fucking slowly. If he wants to off himself, go do it somewhere where you're not screwing up thousands of peoples mornings.
I can't conjure any sympathy for this crap.
Not to mention how fucked up that driver is going to be.
Ultimately, suicide is an intensely selfish act.
More often than not, it leaves survivors hurt, guilty and, often, financially inconvenienced.
I truly regret your inconvenience this morning. Had the jumper realized you were in the crowd, he might have waited for the next train.
blah blah blah
Or do what normal unselfish person with suicidal tendency would do, jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
lolllll people r so awful these days
Glad I didn't take the F train to work this morning.
Glad the F train didn't take me to the afterlife this morning.
I was on this train and the impact was so hard that I almost fell off my seat. They kept us on the train for almost 10 mins and would not open the doors even though we were completely on the platform. It was pretty scary stuff even though no one on the platform seemed to realize anything was wrong. I just hope someone wasn't pushed.
Luckily I got off to an early start this morning or bad stuff would've went down at work for me. It seemed like we hit something before pulling next to the platform so I thought it was a worker or something in the tracks?!
nuts.
Huh. Kinda surprised how quickly they got this all taken care of; by the time I got on the F (10:15 or so at Ditmas) there was no indication that anything had happened.
I must have got there about ten minutes after it happened, then. At that time, people were coming up the stairs. They knew that someone had been hit and that were saying there wouldn't be any trains running.
I went to the platform and heard the conductor (in the last car), radioing to ask permission to discharge the passengers, noting that the train was fully in the station. A woman, who I assume was the operator, was standing near the last car also. She looked understandably quite disturbed. I left. Condolences to the family.
Apparently it was two people that were both struck by a G train. One dead, the other in critical condition. Suicide not usually an act done by more than one person (outside of cults with kool aid of course), so there seems to be more to this.
That bastion of prize-winning investigative journalism, The Brooklyn Paper, says it was a suicide and only mentions one victim.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/47/32_47_wy_jumper.html
I had another beautiful bike ride to work -- did something happen on the subway?
You stay classy.
as if we need more proof that cyclists are jackasses.
@1:02
Fast Forward...
"Cyclist killed by City bus"
I had another beautiful subway ride to work - did something happen on the streets?
Don't be smug, asshole.
lmao! omg thats so cruel..but i suppose the guy deserved that one..yeah seriously no need to be smug about it..i was really delayed too..i wasn't even sure what was goin on..i ended up getting to school at 9 45...didnt miss too much though b.c of a fire =\
Everyone is awful.
I hate people.
Came down 9th St. this morning and saw everyone pouring out of the station. Found out the train was not running. Met a guy named Joe who offered me a ride into Midtown. Made it to work on time thanks to Joe. Thanks for the kindness in the midst of a sad situation.
What is a G train?
reading these comments make me sick...
1)bottom line-suicide, regardless of whatever else you want to say about it, is really sad
2) sorry you were late for work because someone DIED.
3) all this reinforces that callous new yorker stereotype. Wait, someone got hit by a train and died this morning? Wait, it was a suicide? Well let's be honest, the real injustice is that you were 10 minutes late to work. And screw the MTA official who was rude to you, since they probably had to deal with a barrage of angry commuters and face another blow to an already heavily criticized system.
it truthfully makes me sick.
But does it make you sick?
dont be so sensitive...it has nothing to do with new yorker stereotype
Death is very sad however im sure that you can understand that if the person wanted to kill themselves(they made this decision ahead of time) they could have done in a way that was a tad more considerate to the rest of F train riders and the poor conductor whose life will never be the same after seeing this...
it just boils down to the fact that mta sucks and they always did + they never supply us w/any info about constructions,accidents ect.. throwing thousands of ppl off their schedule it kinda inconsiderate! plus just being 10 min late maybe not an issue for everyone but many ppl would be in hot water at work or school.
TOday i ws at 7th ave station as were my frends......... this was suicide, before he was hit he touched the 3rd rail
Zzzt, zzzt.
yea it does! SICK SICK SICK
YouTubZ or it never happened (the way you say it did).
The G train moves so slowly that I can't imagine it killing anyone
I'm the one that took the photo above @ around 8:30 AM. This was at the Bergen St entrance; there was no sign @ Warren St, my entrance. There were no announcements, nothing. They didn't have the courtesy to rope off the staircases, so all the riders got to walk down to the platform and mill about like schmucks. It's the MTA's lack of courtesy in these situations that makes them more offensive.
well, that sucks
oh my god, what is wrong with you people!!!??? someone DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah but apparently that person was cool with it, so hey.
Love these comments, and let's keep in mind that suicide means that the person meant to die.
I was in the second to last car of the F train right behind the G. So sad to hear it was a suicide and was so disappointed at the way some people were handling themselves after we were instructed to walk to the front of the train to evacuate. Some people were pushing and letting the doors slam on other people as we made our way off. Of course, the majority of people were nice and orderly, but judging from the comments on here and the behavior I witnessed yesterday, it makes me even more upset to know how truly selfish people can be.
I suppose we are never going to find out this person's name or exactly what happened (like why was 1010 WINS reporting 2 people hit?). From what I gather, there's an unwritten rule about not reporting suicides such as this one in the traditional media, so as to not encourage copycats.
"all this reinforces that callous new yorker stereotype". Ladyjane, I beg to differ. All this reinforces is the fact that 95% of people that post comments on youtube or articles are assholes. It is real easy for a person to use the anonymity of the internet to post callous and crude remarks, which they would never have the balls to say in real life.
Please keep a measure of perspective when reading these comments, and realize they do not reflect accurately the feelings of normal human beings with active social lives.
Sometime within the past year, I got off of the front car at 7th Avenue and there on the platform was a body of a man at the bottom of the steps in a small pool of blood. Does anyone else recall this and know what happened?
Wow, crazy stuff. I was looking for info on this and of course, I find it here. My friend's wife was waiting for the train when it happened. She didn't witness anything but heard from others that did see what happened that it was an apparent suicide. No one said that there were two people involved.
While sad, I agree that suicide is an intensely selfish act and one that cultivates little sympathy from me.