Life and Death on the Subway

Tuesday evening 9 December 2008, or it may have already been early Wednesday the 10th, I was traveling on a Brooklyn bound A train. As the subway pulled into 59th St station, one could see emergency personnel and MTA employees scurrying about on the platform. A Brooklyn bound D train was in a stationary position, about a third of the way inside the station. Trapped between the Train carriage and the platform was a corpse. A upper torso covered by a white sheet could be seen. A tragic accident.

One minute the subway so full of life is snaking along the tracks, the next it meets death.

Train safely.