A 45-year-old man, who suffered serious injuries after being pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City on New Year's Eve, says he plans to return to the subway system despite the physical and psychological trauma he endured. The attack has prompted him to call for increased safety measures on the city's vital transit system.
Subway riders stand near yellow barriers on a platform of the 7 train in New York on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. ahead of an oncoming train said that in spite of the physical and psychological trauma, he eventually plans to make his way back to the train.Lynskey, 45, was standing on the platform in the West 18th Street station in Manhattan after lunch on New Year's Eve when a hard shove from behind sent him flying as a 1 train approached.
“I looked up, and I was underneath the 1 train,” he said during the interview in the Brooklyn apartment he shares with his 16-year-old dachshund, Leo.Lynskey's ordeal has left him convinced city and state officials need to do more to address the violence on a system that is vital to New York. He had met friends for lunch the afternoon of Dec. 31 and had planned to catch an express train back to Brooklyn to get ready for a New Year's Eve party later that day. His plans changed at the entrance to the 18th Street station, when he decided to get out of the cold and take the approaching local 1 for one stop and then transfer.
“Absolute chaos” from the platform followed as emergency workers arrived on the scene, he recalled. Two firefighters lowered themselves under the train and told Lynskey to remain perfectly still so that neither he nor they would be electrocuted.
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