Results tagged “unionsquaresubway”

Graffiti at 72 St. B/C downtown subway platform, NYC, 11 Jan 2007, by Carynsolly.

Where is that Jared when you need him? He could take the pants he no longer needs and use them as a netting to catch the robber.

What is New York without some subway stories? In this edition, surviving falling into the subway tracks, the (non-fatal, luckily) stabbing of transit worker and the mugging of a nun:

The subway station at Union Square has the distinction of actually having a police station inside, besides the 4, 5, 6, L, N, R, Q, and W trains. While some view the police presence as reason to get a little protesty, Gothamist notes that there is good to having the police at the station, after reading two subway stories. On Monday afternoon, a man groped a woman and her daughter on a downtown 4 train that left Grand Central; the woman was able to tell the police who arrested the guy right there. Then yesterday, a man fainted and fell into the tracks of the uptown 6 in front of train that had stopped there. Two onlookers jumped down and told the train not to move while other people called for the police; a rookie cop jumped down and bandaged the 49 year old man's head until more police could come and help him hoist out the man.

If your ears seem to bleed a little more while waiting at the Union Square subway stop, it's because that is the loudest subway platform in the system. The screeching of train brakes can reach as high as 98.6 decibels. According to the Post's article, exposure to noises louder than 90 decibels can cause permanent hearing damage [National Institute of Health]; average conversation registers is about 60 decibels and a noisy restaurant or heavy traffic is 85 decibels. Interesting, wonder what kind of restuarant is that noisy...the Restaurant?

There's been another subway pushing at Union Square, this time at the 4/5 platform. The victim, Brandon Crimson, was pushed into the northbound tracks at 8:15AM. He managed to roll under the train. Crimson is recovering from a broken leg at Bellevue. More from the Daily News and Post.