3 People Hit By NYC Trains In Single Day, Officials Say

NEW YORK CITY, NY — Three people were hit by trains in three separate incidents across New York City Monday: the first in midtown, the second around two hours later on the Upper East Side and the third incident in Brooklyn Monday evening, officials confirmed.

The first incident unfolded when a person was hit by a train at a Midtown subway station Monday morning.

The person was struck just before 10 a.m. at the 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal station, an FDNY spokesperson said.

The FDNY said the victim was in cardiac arrest and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Their condition was unclear.

Then a man died Monday afternoon after apparently jumping in front of an oncoming subway train at a busy Upper East Side station, according to police.

The 69-year-old man jumped in front of a downtown 4 train at the 86th Street-Lexington Avenue stop around 12:30 p.m., an NYPD spokesperson said.

He was pronounced dead at a hospital around 2 p.m., police say.

Finally, on Monday evening, a person was struck by a train at 59 Street in Brooklyn, according to the MTA.

The MTA said a train was moved after having its emergency brake cord pulled near 39th Avenue in Queens, adding that there was also a mechanical problem on a train at 23rd Street in Manhattan.

A report from THE CITY published earlier this year shows track intrusions — the MTA's term for people on subway tracks — have increased steadily in recent years.

There were 1,267 in 2021 — 200 ended with collisions and 68 were fatal — up from 1,062 in 2019 and 1,094 in 2020, THE CITY reported.

Among 2022 fatalities was the shoving death of Michelle Go, who was pushed in front of a train in Times Square in January.

Go's death spurred growing calls to install subway platform safety doors, which the MTA said in a 4,000-page study would only be feasible in about 4o to 100 stations.

Patch reached out to the MTA for comment.

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