On last night's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David finally makes his way to New York, only to be thwarted by guest star Ricky Gervais, playing a sniveling Broadway star who threatens to charm Larry's love interest away. David, however, in a rare moment of heroism, manages to one-up the Brit by saving him from a subway mugger using only a loaf of crusty bread from "the oldest Italian pastry shop in America," Veniero's. more ›

February 2011 has been a good month for Derrick Oakes! First he saved a woman from the tracks of the East Broadway F station and walked away before being thanked. After a media blitz, he finally introduced himself to the woman he saved, which lead to a press-friendly dinner and a bunch of presents. And now Oakes, a 43-year-old maintenance worker, is going to receive a plaque for his good deed (and $2k to give to charity) at halftime at tonight's Knicks game. It's good to be the subway hero. more ›

Off-duty MTA worker Sabrina Scott was saved by an unidentified subway hero after being attacked by what the Daily News calls a "clean-shaven lunatic." On Friday evening, Scott was reportedly chased around the East Broadway F station by the man, who reportedly said things like, "Are you scared of me?" A Good Samaritan answered her cries for help and began fighting her attacker. Unfortunately in their scuffle they knocked into Scott and pushed her onto the tracks. more ›

And the city has itself a new subway hero! Jerome Billings, the wheelchair-bound man who accidentally rolled onto the subway tracks in Harlem on Friday, wants to thank MTA worker Carlos Betancourt and all the straphangers who helped haul him out. "They saved me," Billings said. "I'm forever grateful...It would have been such a horrible way to die. I fought off AIDS for 20 years, and now I'm going to go out like this. I couldn't believe I was going to die on a dirty subway track." And it turns out that it was all the Bible's fault! more ›

Considering "Subway Hero" Carlos Flores made his daring rescue because he wanted to make it to work on time, you'd think that his boss at Gristedes would be a bit more appreciative. But apparently he just gave Flores a commemorative certificate and said, "It takes somebody special to do that, and we want to recognize you as somebody special in our company and in our city." Ok, so he did give Flores's son a $500 check for a PS3, but the kid didn't even do anything! What good is being a subway hero if you can't even get a PS3 of your own? more ›

We've heard from subway hero Carlos Flores and the man he saved, Thomas Grant...and now the subway train motorman is speaking! Edson Braham told the Daily News he says a prayer each day before work: "Please, God, may no one get hurt as I do my job." On Sunday his prayer almost went unanswered, however, when Grant fell on to the tracks. Almost instantly Flores jumped down to save him, and a bystander ran to alert the station agent of the situation (surely we'll be hearing from those two next), but Flores was running out of time to get himself off the roadbed. more ›

The city's latest subway hero, Carlos Flores, has been reunited with the man he saved on the subway tracks, Thomas Grant. On Sunday, Flores jumped to the tracks to pull Grant to safety (after he suffered an epileptic seizure), as a 6 train was approaching. Luckily, a second subway hero alerted the station agent, who gave the train conductor a heads up—and both made it out of there alive. According to the Daily News, when the two men met at the hospital, Flores said: "People kept asking me if I felt like a hero. I didn't feel like a hero." more ›

The digital countdown clocks in the subway stations served a new purpose yesterday, when 36-year-old Carlos Flores used one to check how much time he had to save a man who had fallen on to the tracks. Happy Monday everyone, we have a new subway hero! According to the Daily News, Flores was waiting for the downtown 6 train at 103rd Street at 8 a.m. yesterday when he saw a man (who allegedly fainted) sprawled over the tracks. He told the paper, "I was thinking, if he gets hit I can't go to work. It's Sunday. I can't miss out. It's a time-and-a-half day." (His job at a NoHo grocery store, where he's a produce clerk, gets him 19 bucks an hour on Sundays.) more ›

Francis Lusk, the motorman who stopped his train 70 feet before a woman who had fainted and fallen on the tracks, was apparently so modest about being a hero that he didn't even tell his dad about his day when he returned home. His dad told the Daily News, "He went out to get Chinese food, and the phone rang. It was the TA. I said, 'What the hell did he do now?' They said, 'Your son's a hero.'" We feel like most other people would be conducting themselves like Dennis Duffy. more ›

An MTA architect on his way to work on Friday found himself deeply indebted to four unidentified good Samaritans after they rescued him from the subway tracks. Michael Lodespoto was waiting for the subway after transferring from Atlantic Terminal when he began to feel dizzy. He told Newsday he remembers leaning on a column, and then looking up at at least four people (he thinks they were construction workers) lifting him from the tracks. He said, "I just want to thank them for their courage...and maybe give them a hug." more ›

Jessica Oshita, the young woman who miraculously survived an oncoming L train running over her at the Union Square station, returned home yesterday. However, the identity of the good, and humble, Samaritan who saved her life—since there wasn't enough time to lift her out of the tracks, he placed her in between the tracks— remains unknown. more ›

After a Good Samaritan helped save a woman who fell into the L train tracks at Union Square on Monday night, practically everyone is eager to know who mystery man is! Wesley Autrey, whose subway heroics of 2007 still amaze us (Autrey crawled over a man have a seizure in the tracks and the 1 train went over their heads!), tells the Daily News, "I would just want him to come forward so the city could recognize him - and so I could meet him. You don't find too many people who are willing to save lives." more ›

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." more ›

An off-duty firefighter got called into action Friday night when he ended up pulling a Wes Autrey and jumping down on the tracks to rescue a man who had fainted and was laying unconscious on the tracks just as an uptown Q train began pulling into the Union Square station. 30-year-old Adam Rivera, originally of Bay Ridge, had been out in the East Village getting Indian food with his girlfriend to celebrate their seventh anniversary. The couple was heading home to the Upper West Side when Rivera spotted 45-year-old Marco Delamo on the tracks. The firefighter out of Engine 10 in lower Manhattan told reporters, "People were panicking, but nobody was doing anything...I thought to myself, 'This is my job — I'm a New York City firefighter, and I have to do something...There was no time to be afraid. You can't waste time hesitating. You just move, and the thinking stops...Being right there in a position to help — that's why I joined the department." Rivera and two other men lifted Delamo to the platform before he was taken to St. Vincent's intensive care with head injuries. more ›

Though he initially said he wanted to remain anonymous, actor Chad Lindsey, who on Monday rescued a man who fell into the subway tracks in Penn Station, has been making the rounds, doing TV appearances with WCBS and Rachel Maddow's show. On the latter program, he recounts his daring rescue story with self-effacing aplomb, and while there aren't any new details revealed, many viewers will no doubt swoon to hear the cutie tell his tale. more ›

Watch out, Wes Autrey. There's a new subway hero in town—and he's not afraid to go under the Hudson River. Terrence Kelsor, a PATH security guard, spotted a drunk man stumble onto the tracks of the Christopher Street station late Friday night and was able to lift him to safety moments before a train arrived. The unknown victim stumbled back into the night after being rescued. Kelsor describes him as so intoxicated that "you could smell it coming out of his pores." The News says that the man who fell was over 250 pounds, while Kelsor only checks in at 5'7" and 170 pounds. The Newark man told the paper, "Somehow, I had superhuman strength. It was by the grace of God. It could have been his life. It could have been mine. Both our lives were in jeopardy." If there was any doubt to his bravery, even an Iraq vet confirms it. A witness from the Army Corps of Engineers said, "He didn't hesitate. I hesitated, and I just got back from Iraq." more ›

Subway hero Wesley Autrey isn't done being a public figure yet. While being interviewed by the Daily News to commemorate the second anniversary of his famous rescue of a man who had fallen onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train, Autrey mentioned, "I would like to do a couple of commercials for Subway sandwiches." Being a hero and all, naturally his motivation for doing them would be to raise money for his foundation that works with troubled youths. For the first time since his memorable leap at the 137th Street 1 train station, Autrey was reunited with the man he saved, film student Cameron Hollopeter. It wasn't exactly The Gift of the Magi, but the two exchanged presents. Autrey passed along a reproduction of a painting inspired by their encounter, "A Hero/Angel Is Born," while Hollopeter brought a framed picture of himself, sitting at a piano. Autrey took a break from his construction job to tell the News, "We've more or less adopted each other. I told my daughters, 'You've got a new uncle now.'" more ›

Should Mayor Bloomberg consider acting after leaving City Hall? He's appeared on Law & Order (twice), he's supposed to be appear in the upcoming Sex and the City movie, and he just had a cameo on a 30 Rock. The 30 Rock cameo is pretty hard to beat, as Bloomberg presents a medal to a subway hero--recalling how he honored actual subway hero Wesley Autrey--except the show's subway hero is the sleazy Beeper King ex-boyfriend of Liz Lemon (played by Dean Winters). Yes, the ex-boyfriend who was ensnared in a Dateline To Catch a Predator segment. Here's the part with Mayor Bloomberg: more ›

The man who fell into the uptown tracks at the 116th Street subway station - and was saved by a Columbia maintenance worker who saw him from the downtown side and crossed the tracks - has finally spoken out. The 46-year-old NJ resident relayed his message to rescuer Veeramuthu Kalimuthu, via the Daily News, "Thank you for saving my life. I came less than 60 seconds from being run over." more ›