Earlier this morning, 4 and 6 train service was suspended for a couple hours between Brooklyn Bridge and 42nd Street, due to an investigation. It turns out that a man was struck and killed by a train near Spring Street before 6 a.m. more ›

The two teens who were arrested for allegedly shoving an 81-year-old man into the subway tracks after stealing his iPhone were charged with attempted murder. The Daily News reports, "Jaqua Sowells, 17, and Taheen Herkul, 15, who live in the same building at Borinquen Plaza in Williamsburg, were also hit with robbery and felony assault charges for attacking Andrew Wong at the J-M-Z stop" at Lorimer last Friday. more ›

The 81-year-old man whose iPhone was stolen and then was shoved into Brooklyn subway tracks says that he's thankful to the subway riders in the station who helped him. Andrew Wang, who spent three days in the hospital after the incident at the Lorimer Street J train station, told the Daily News, "Other people came and helped me. It was God who helped. Thank God, I’m all right." more ›

The career criminal who was arrested for allegedly raping and beating a woman at the Bowery J train station was drunk, according to his ex-girlfriend, who told the Post, “He wasn’t himself. He didn’t realize what he was doing." more ›

A Brooklyn woman is suing the MTA for $50 million, alleging that they could have done more to find her son, who was killed when a train hit him on the tracks near the Newkirk subway station. The victim's sister Yunette Rowe told NBC New York, "He was not searched for long enough." more ›

Last night, a 66-year-old man was hit by a D train at the Bay 50th Street station in Brooklyn around 7:30 p.m. According to the Daily News, "The victim told rescue workers he had fallen onto the track bed, an MTA official said... His left leg was severed under the knee and his right leg was crushed" more ›

A woman who fell onto the tracks at the 5th Avenue and 59th Street N station yesterday morning is extremely lucky to be alive, after an oncoming train came to a halt just 70 feet before hitting her body. According to the Daily News, Motorman Francis Lusk spotted the woman about 300 feet before his train, and saw folks on the platform waving their hands frantically, so he slammed on the brakes not a moment too soon. He said, "She walked right off the platform. I was shocked. I didn't know what was wrong." more ›

It's a tough day for Dustin Dibble, who says he was so drunk he doesn't remember being run over by an N train in the Union Square subway station in April of 2006. A jury awarded him $2.3 million last year, deciding that the motorman had plenty of time to stop the train when he spotted Dibble, 25, lying on the tracks 180 feet away, but kept moving because "he thought it was garbage." Well, today's verdict from the state Appellate Division rips that theory to shreds. more ›

Jose Gomez and Beatriz Briceno, the two struck by an oncoming subway in Astoria last Friday, were reportedly on their first date that night. The two had met when 19-year-old Briceno had waited on 29-year-old Gomez at El Cocotero in Manhattan, and had been out for just a few hours when she dropped her jacket onto the elevated tracks. The jacket, which was valued at $200, also contained her wallet, cell phone and keys. more ›

Last night, a wake was held in Brooklyn for Jose Gomez, who was killed Friday by an oncoming subway while helping a friend retrieve her jacket from the tracks. Gomez, a 29-year-old from Venezuela, was on the 36th Avenue platform in Astoria when his friend, Beatriz Briceno, 19, dropped her jacket onto the tracks. The pair, who had been drinking, jumped down for the clothing and were hit by an oncoming train. Briceno is still in the hospital in critical condition, but Gomez was killed. His sister said at the wake, "He [would] always think about somebody else before himself." more ›

A one-legged woman wearing only black panties was discovered yesterday afternoon on the tracks of the N train in Besnonhurst. "I heard one of the workers screaming on the radio, 'A woman's body on the tracks!'" said Matt Bencivenga, a dispatcher for a car service company nearby. "She was all mangled." According to the News, her prosthetic leg was found nearby around 3:40 p.m., 100 feet from the Kings Highway station. Authorities think impact of the train knocked it off, and also severed her hand; investigators suspect the cause of the death may be a suicide. more ›

Stand clear of the platform edge and then some: A 14-year-old boy fell into the tracks at the Kings Highway subway station when the platform partially collapsed. Avi Katz was able to get away before the approaching Q train made it into the station. more ›