By The Diary
27 Aug 2024, 01:51 AM EDT
A fight on a New York subway platform turned tragic when a 20-year-old man fell onto the tracks and was hit by a train yesterday at a station in Queens.
The incident remains under investigation. The victim and an 18-year-old boy are believed to have gotten into a fight inside the 74th St.-Roosevelt Ave. station in Jackson Heights and the older boy fell onto the tracks around 11 a.m. Monday, the NYPD said.
The injured man died at the scene after being struck by a Jamaica-bound F train. His name was not immediately released, the agency reported. Daily News.
The teen was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. No charges were immediately filed. The crash brought subway service in Queens to a standstill, causing long delays into the afternoon on the E, F, M and R lines. Manhattan-bound trains were still bypassing the 74th St.-Roosevelt Ave. station late Monday afternoon, though Jamaica-bound service had already resumed.
It was the second death on the New York subway in as many days, after a 33-year-old man was stabbed in a fight on Saturday afternoon on a train in the Bronx.
Since taking office in January 2022, Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, has announced several times that he would double the number of police officers on the chaotic NYC Subway. But violence and fare evasion have continued.
In early August, a woman described as mentally ill was charged with pushing a pair of Mexican tourists onto the tracks at a station in Lower Manhattan. In late July, a 15-year-old boy was found dead on the subway tracks in Queens in a possible case of illegal “surfing,” and less than two hours later, an adult was fatally struck in an underground station in Chelsea, Manhattan.