Man survives subway attack and the MTA releases a video!

An amazing story.

Not that someone was attacked in the subway late at night.

That happens a lot.

But that he survived and ... wonder of wonders ... the MTA/NYPD released a video of the attackers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/man-hit-train-punched-pair-union-square-article-1.3704065

Meanwhile, based on the absence of news all the on-the-track killers have decided to retire.

That last sentence is satire.

In my opinion, the MTA is getting away with silence, a cover up. 

If this victim had not survived I am convinced the usual "no evidence" of foul play routine would have been followed.

Note to new comers: Union Square is a major station in Manhattan. I doubt that anti-crime cameras are in other less busy stations.

Four More "Accidents" or Maybe "Suicides"

Four more people struck and killed in the NYC subway.

Two predictions: the MTA/NYPD will not release any videos of these events and the NYPD will not consider the possibility of homicide.

At Astor Place.

(https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171010/east-village/astor-place-6-train-person-struck)

Bryant Park.

(https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171010/midtown/bryant-park-person-struck-by-train)

The Upper West Side.

(https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171006/upper-west-side/person-struck-by-train-96th-street)

... and Grand Army Plaza.

(https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171004/prospect-heights/person-struck-by-train-grand-army-plaza)

Ain't New York great?

Another Track Death at 4:30 AM

Man Dies After Q Train Runs Him Over at 23rd Street Station, NYPD Says

By Aidan Gardiner April 24, 2017

MANHATTAN — A man was found dead in the 23rd Street subway station after a Q train ran him over early Sunday, NYPD officials said.

The train suddenly stopped when its emergency brakes were triggered and the motorman discovered the body when he went out to inspect the rails in the station near Broadway about 4:30 a.m., police said.

The man, who is believed to be in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Police said they don't suspect any criminality was involved.

The Daily News report, after assuring the public that the police "do not suspect criminality" includes this closing laugh line: "The investigation is ongoing."

Of course it is.

Who would imagine that a lone traveler using the subway late at night might possibly have been a crime victim?

Why would anyone suspect that the reason the New York City subway (which installed surveillance cameras where they can record fare beaters has virtually none on platforms and mezzanines where they could record attacks on passengers) is to enable the management of the NYPDs Transit Bureau can keep Transit bosses and Transit lawyers happy by assuring the public "there is no evidence of criminality?"   

Photo of Joseph Fox, commander of the NYPD's Transit Bureau

Two Track Walkers Struck by Trains at Five AM

Man Fatally Struck by LIRR Train Near Woodside Station, MTA Says

WOODSIDE — A man was struck and killed by a LIRR train in Queens early Sunday morning, according to the MTA.

The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was hit shortly before 5 a.m. east of the Woodside station by a train on the Port Washington line heading into Penn Station, an MTA spokesman said.

He was declared dead at the scene. The MTA said it was not clear why the man was on the train tracks at the time.

DNA Info LINK

The Daily News included another Five AM "accident" in its report:

Meanwhile, a man survived after stumbling off the platform into the path of an oncoming train at a Manhattan subway station.

The straphanger, who police believe was intoxicated, was struck by a downtown Q train as it pulled into the 57th St.-Seventh Ave. station at 5 a.m., police said. The train struck the man’s leg, according to police.

He was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell and is expected to survive.
          
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Perhaps someday the MTA and the NYPD will investigate why so many "accidents" happen when the transit system (and the LIRR) have the lowest number of passengers and why those passengers seem to include a high number of people who "accidentally" end up on the tracks.

Sure, and someday they will even publish videos of the "accidents". 

Another Adult Male Surfer is Killed!

Subway surfer dies after falling off train onto tracks in Bronx 

A subway surfer died after falling off a train in the Bronx Sunday morning, police said.

The victim, described only as a man in his 30s, fell from the top of a southbound D train at the Tremont Ave. station in Mount Hope just after 4 a.m., cops said.

He fell onto the tracks and was struck by the train, according to officials.  He died at the scene.

Any NYPD official with experience with the subway system knows that "surfing" is practiced by young teenagers acting in groups.  They do not surf late at night. Here's a case where one of those foolish teenagers was killed in mid-afternoon while his pals videoed the stunt.

To my knowledge no adult male has ever been observed by witnesses "surfing" on the roof or the side of a speeding train.

But in my opinion, the current management of the Transit Bureau of the NYPD has hit upon this variant of their old standbys. They have claimed for years that unwitnessed track deaths happen because he or she had been "moving between cars" or "walking on the tracks."

But "late night surfing" looks like the new favorite. 

Back in May the NYPD/MTA accused a 24-year old electrician of having been surfing all by himself at 2:30 am. Here's the link.

In October a sole surfer was killed at 4:45 am.  Link.

Here's what I think actually happened to those three men: they were attacked by thugs and throw off the moving train. But the Transit Bureau's "No Case Squad" ensured that the killers lived to kill again.

Who was the mastermind behind the new "he was surfing" line that certainly pleases the MTA lawyers?  Was it Joseph Fox, Chief of Transit in the world-famous NYPD?

Two More Track Deaths

Two killed, another severely injured by trains across city in seven-hour span

Two men were killed and another was severely injured by trains across the city within a seven-hour span Friday and Saturday.

On Saturday morning, a man died after leaping in front of an oncoming train at a Bronx subway station, cops said.

The unidentified victim was struck by a southbound 1 train as it pulled into 231st St. station in Kingsbridge around 4:50 a.m., according to police.

The train's conductor saw the man jump from the platform, officials said.
 
In Harlem, a man was struck and killed by a downtown D train Friday night, police said.

The man was walking across the tracks — from the uptown platform to the downtown platform — in the B/D station on 155th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 11:20 p.m. when he was hit, cops said.

  ... In a separate incident in Brooklyn, thirty minutes earlier, a man lost part of his arm after being run over by a B train at the elevated Brighton Beach station.

The man was struck and trapped by the train around 10:50 p.m., officials said. He is expected to survive.

Two people killed by trains and -- what a surprise! -- they were both entirely responsible for their own deaths.

One "walker" and one "leaper." 

Both were killed in the off hours when "civilian" witnesses are rare.

There are -- most probably -- no surveillance cameras at the scene of these violent deaths so the MTA lawyers will have a no problem blaming the dead men. 

And, if these victims were actually murdered, their killers are as happy as those lawyers.
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An Unlikely "Fight"

UPDATE: Caught in a lie!

The man who survived now has a lawyer,  Joshua Stein, who says "There was no altercation."


The would-be killer simply saw the victim and pushed.  

ANOTHER LIE?

Did the train operator lie?

[Steven Switzer the train operator] " ... told cops he didn’t see the alleged push."

Quoting the Daily News: "A second witness told police the platform was very crowded and she “saw a hand extend through the crowd and push an individual who she saw falling into the tracks.”


LINK The Daily News 

This is what the MTA and the Transit Bureau of the NYPD want you to believe: two men, who do not know each other, get into a fight on a nearly-deserted subway platform at an off-peak hour (6:45 a.m.). One of the "fighters" pushes the other man onto the tracks as a train roars into the station. The victim survives but loses the lower part of his left leg.

Here's what I think really happened: a criminal (police video shows he jumped the turnstile) saw a lone man on the platform and decided to attack him.

Why would the Transit Bureau of the NYPD tell such a "story" of what happened? To answer that question ask another: Which scenario would you prefer if you were an ethics-free lawyer defending a legal suit brought by the man who lost his leg? That the victim was a completely innocent crime victim or he was to blame for "fighting" on the platform?

As readers of this site know, I am convinced that the NYPD's Transit Bureau is dedicated to a "see no evil" approach to fatal track incidents. Based on past experience if this man had not survived the police would have told the press "We don't know why he was on the track but there is no evidence of foul play." That's what they did in twenty-five separate incidents in 2012.

Here's the Daily News story: Man pushes fellow straphanger into Bronx subway tracks after fight breaks out on platform and here's the one from DNAinfo: Police Hunt Suspect Who Shoved Man in Front of Subway.

(Note from the DNAinfo story that the police released a video of the criminal on the street, not in the subway in the act of pushing the victim. The police and the MTA lawyers are quite content to have no videos of what really happens during subway accidents crimes. In transit systems where the police are not beholden to civil defense attorneys, like London, this event would have been video-recorded as was this one. )

Another Track "Accident"

Man Struck by Train at 7th Ave. Station in Brooklyn, MTA Says

by Ben Fractenberg | January 20, 2017 4:21pm | Updated on January 20, 2017 4:46pm

BROOKLYN — A man was hit by a train at the Seventh Avenue station in Prospect Heights Friday afternoon, disrupting B and Q service, according to the MTA.

The man was hit by a northbound B train after getting on the tracks at about 3:37 p.m., according to the FDNY and MTA. It was not immediately clear how he got down from the platform or the severity of his injuries, though an MTA spokeswoman said he was still alive after being struck.

LINK

Another passenger "volunteers" to be struck by a train.

Most of these "crazy" people do that very late at night when there are few witnesses.

I don't know how active this Brooklyn station is in mid-afternoon but the MTA need not worry.

It can count on the NYPD's Transit Bureau to do "the usual," ensuring that no one is to blame except the "crazy" track walker.

(I do hope this citizen survives.)

This "accident" is the latest of a recent string of others, three of which also happened in Brooklyn.

Is there be a serial killer loose in Brooklyn? 

Or even a small group who are convinced that their track-murders will never be investigated?

Three Fatal "Accidents"

Man Struck and Killed by A Train in Clinton Hill, Police Say 

By Aidan Gardiner | January 13, 2017

BROOKLYN — A man was struck and killed by an A train in Clinton Hill Friday morning, NYPD officials said.

The victim, who police were still trying to identify, was on the tracks at the Clinton-Washington Avenue station at about 4 a.m. when the train struck him, police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police described the man as in his 40s or 50s.

It wasn't immediately clear why he was on the tracks, police said.

          LINK

Comment: I doubt that the police even considered homicide as a possible cause. Based on several years' reading reports of scores of unwitnessed track deaths I'm convinced the NYPD routinely blames the victim for his violent track death. 

Their favorite explanations: he was walking on the tracks or he was walking between cars and fell: 

Update on January 15, 2017: According to the Daily News the NYPD assures the public: "It was not immediately clear why the man was on the tracks, but police do not suspect any criminality."

Person Fatally Struck by L Train, Officials Say

By Ben Fractenberg | January 10, 2017

 

BROOKLYN — L train service was disrupted after a person was fatally struck by a train in Bushwick Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

The person was found in the subway tunnel near Wilson Avenue at about 2:24 p.m. after a Manhattan-bound train hit the victim, an MTA spokeswoman said. 

It was not immediately clear if the person was walking between stations or if he or she was walking between subway cars and fell off the train onto the tracks. 

Officials did not have any immediate information on the person's identity.


LINK

Comment: Note that the only possible explanations mentioned are that the victim is to blame for his or her death.  Anyone with subway experience knows there are safety chains in place to prevent accidental falls and that no sane person walks on tracks. At mid-afternoon in some remote subway stations passenger activity is very low, ensuring that homicides will have no witnesses.

Man Fatally Struck by Train at Kings Highway Station, Officials Say

By Ben Fractenberg | January 10, 2017

BROOKLYN — A man was fatally struck by a train at the Kings Highway station, disrupting B and Q service ahead of the evening rush, according to officials.

The man was hit at about 4:16 p.m. and pronounced dead at the station, an FDNY spokesman said.

 Service resumed at the station with residual delays at about 5:56 p.m., according to the MTA.

 ... There was no information on the man’s identity immediately available.

LINK

Comment: I could find no mention of these three violent deaths in New York newspapers. 

It looks like nothing will change in 2017. Transit Bureau NYPD officials will protect the MTA from law suits, the media will continue to ignore the outrageous corruption, thugs will kill with impunity and the world's largest transit system will continue to operate without cameras that could have recorded how these three victims were killed.