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NEW YEAR’S DEATHS
Man dies on New Year’s Day after laying
himself on Fort Greene subway tracks
BY COLIN MIXSON
A subway hit and killed a man after he
lay down on tracks near a Fort Greene
station in an apparent New Year’s Day
suicide.
The Manhattan-bound A train was
in a tunnel approaching Lafayette Avenue
station when its conductor spotted
the 23-year-old lying on the tracks
at 3:16 am and activated the subway’s
emergency break, according to Police
Department spokeswoman Sgt. Jessica
McRorie.
But the train could not stop in time,
and police and paramedics called to
the scene found the man dead when
they arrived, McRorie said.
The collision left straphangers,
many of whom were headed home following
a night of New Year’s festivities,
stranded in the tunnel for an hour
and 45 minutes, according to Caribbean
Life reporter Alexandra Simon,
who was aboard the train when the incident
occurred.
But the subway did not seem to stop
abruptly when it hit the man, and some
commuters did not realize what happened
until 20 minutes after the fatal
crash, when the conductor asked passengers
to move to the last car on the
train, according to Simon.
There, the conductor informed the
riders about the apparent suicide after
Bay News reporter Julianne McShane,
who was also on the subway, asked him
what happened.
McShane described the conductor
as visibly shaken, but said he remained
professional throughout the
emergency.
“He had to keep doing his job, but
he was obviously disturbed by what
he’d experienced,” she said.
The straphangers packed into the
train’s last car waited for another 20
or so minutes before a rescue train
STRUCK AND STUCK: Straphangers anxiously
waited in the last car of the stalled A
train until a second rescue train showed up
to shuttle them to a nearby station, where
they disembarked. Photo by Alexandra Simon
pulled up and they transferred onto it
mid-tunnel. They then waited for another
hour as the train retreated into
the Clinton-Washington Avenues station,
where they fi nally disembarked
onto the platform around 4:45 am, Simon
said.
Most riders remained calm despite
the ordeal’s delays, except for one man,
who stalked up and down the crowded
train car telling the conductor to “suck
my d---,” according to McShane.
“He was annoyed, and wanted to
go home, and didn’t care that someone
had killed themselves,” she said.
Cyclist hit, killed after collision with
cab door sends him fl ying into traffi c
BY COLIN MIXSON
A driver fatally crashed into a cyclist
on Jan. 1, after the bicycle rider collided
with the open door of a taxi cab
and hurtled into traffi c on Third Avenue
in Greenwood Heights.
Hugo Alexander Sinto Garcia, 26,
was reportedly riding a pedal-assistelectric
two-wheeler — which the city
recently legalized on local streets —
towards Gowanus at 5:59 am, when
he smashed into the cab’s open door
near 28th Street, just one block from
his 29th Street home, according to authorities.
Garcia then fell from his bicycle
into a traffi c lane, where the 53-yearold
motorist behind the wheel of a 2013
Nissan ran over him.
Paramedics found Garcia unconscious
on the road with trauma to
his head and body, and rushed him
to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn,
where doctors pronounced him dead,
police said.
The drivers of the cab and the Nissan
remained at the scene, but cops did
not immediately cuff them, according
to authorities, who said their investigation
of the crash is ongoing.
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