The 7 line is running with delays Tuesday morning hours after a straphanger was struck and killed by a train in Queens, according to the MTA and NYPD.
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The 7 line is running with delays Tuesday morning hours after a straphanger was struck and killed by a train in Queens, according to the MTA and NYPD.
Police arrived at 7:11 a.m. on April 21 on the Manhattan-bound platform of the Junction Blvd station on the border of Jackson Heights and Corona — within the NYPD’s 115th Precinct and Transit District 20.
Officers found an unconscious and unresponsive man on the tracks, who was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The victim’s identity is still unknown.
Cops do not suspect any criminality in the incident, and police sources said an eyewitness saw the man fall on the tracks.
The 7 train is running local between 74th St-Broadway and Mets-Willets Point and with delays after cops responded to the incident, according to an MTA spokesperson. Trains were partially suspended earlier Tuesday morning, directly after the man was struck.
The MTA is encouraging Queens commuters to use the E, F, M, or R trains as alternatives.
Police said they also responded to a separate incident of a person falling on the tracks at the 86th Street station on the 5 line, within the 19th Precinct on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. However, they said the person was able to get off the tracks without getting struck by a train or sustaining serious injuries.