Crime & Safety
Harlem 110th Street Shooting Report Unfounded; Service Resuming on 2,3 Line
Commuters ran from the station due to rumors of a shooting.
HARLEM, NEW YORK — A "shots fired" rumor at the Harlem 110th Street Station turned out to be a verbal dispute between two people, according to the NYPD.
Police said no shots were fired during the dispute and are not sure how the information came about.
"Someone may have heard fighting and may have thought that was what was going on," an NYPD spokeswoman told Patch.
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Service on the 2 and 3 express lines was disrupted as a result of the incident, leading to overcrowded 1 trains. Service was said to be resuming with residual delays around 9:30 a.m.
Commuters speculated about what was going on at the station.
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Apparently there's been a shooting on a downtown 2 train, evacuated at Central Park North pic.twitter.com/iewcKkp2XU
— Emma Carew Grovum (@emmacarew) June 21, 2016
Shoot out at 110th & Central Park north train station @NYCTSubway! People were legitimately running for their lives.
— J Dilla (@_adott_) June 21, 2016
Ive literally never in life expected to see people running for their lives because someone was armed and shooting.
— J Dilla (@_adott_) June 21, 2016
Huge commotion in the subway in #Harlem and Central Park North. Police everywhere, commuters outside. #NYC pic.twitter.com/ePifnl9Vt9
— Natasha Alford (@NatashaSAlford) June 21, 2016
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