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Desperately Seeking Union Square Subway Hero

2010_05_subwayhero.jpg Not only did the woman who fainted into the Union Square L tracks on Monday night survive with an Eighth Avenue-bound L train passing over her, a mysterious Good Samaritan saved her! According to the Daily News, a man jumped into the tracks and attempted to lift Jessica Oshita onto the platform: "But before he could pull off the rescue, he heard the rumbling of the oncoming Manhattan-bound train and was forced to make a split-second switch to Plan B.... As the train approached, the hero placed Oshita's body in the well between the rails and then quickly hoisted himself onto the platform, the sources said."

Oshita, a 26-year-old photographer, was "unconscious and had blood pouring from her head" from the fall but didn't suffer any serious injuries (she's in stable condition at Bellevue). The hero, described only as a black man, left before anyone could ask him his name; in fact, it happened so fast that other witnesses didn't see him.

Oshita's mother tells the News, "I think this whole thing is a miracle. He is a guardian angel." The News wants to the guardian angel to contact them (of course), and he joins a list of fellow subway heroes including Chad Lindsey (saving a person from a C train at Penn Station), Adam Rivera (Q tracks at Union Square), Terrence Kelsor (a PATH security guard at Christopher Street), two strangers at Union Square (they pulled up a lady who was shoved into the Q tracks) and, of course, Wesley Autrey, who laid on top of a man who was having seizures on the 137th Street 1 train tracks when the train rolled over them.

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  • whirlybird

    eff people who say NY'rs aren't nice

  • 610dean

    And rude, careless, people who more than likely pushed this woman into the tracks.

  • Spirit of 76

    On the one hand, we have guys like this who risk their lives to save a woman on the tracks. On the other hand, we had jerkwads like yesterday's commenters who have nothing better to do than to say, "Hey, lady, take your meds, drink water, eat more food so you don't faint!"

  • dracula mountain

    seriously, can you hire me as a proofreader for this site?

  • pck

    Seriously, you have problems when someone who does not feel the need to capitalize the word at the beginning of a sentence wants you to hire them to proofread your site.

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  • Wza

    lol@the pic

  • jibbly

    I say subway, you say hero!

  • Bklynyc

    Wow, I was there and totally missed that part. How is that possible? Must have been done at lightning speed. Great happy ending story, hope they find the dude.

  • Nyctini11

    Maybe it was Batman!

  • FJF

    The city's only looking for this guy for some PR. I'm sure he's simply content with his good deed and doesn't want the publicity.

  • glen glenn

    Ugh, not another aspiring rapper!!

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