{"id":148797,"date":"2026-03-01T03:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148797\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:43:25","slug":"survivor-of-subway-shove-sues-mta-for-safety-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148797\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor of subway shove sues MTA for safety fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brooklyn music programmer who miraculously survived a New Year\u2019s Eve subway shove <\/a>into the path of a train says the city and the MTA have \u201crecklessly\u201d ignored the threat of subway shoves, according to a new lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Joseph Lynskey<\/a>, 46, filed the lawsuit over a year since his \u201cmiracle\u201d survival after his notorious shoving in front of a speeding 1 train in Chelsea on New Years Eve 2024.<\/p>\n

The suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, says the agency and city had years to do more to prevent train strikes \u2014 and calls the fixed barriers recently installed at a handful of stations \u201ca cheaper solution than full platform doors that automatically open.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joseph Lynskey, 46, survived being shoved in front of a train on New Years Eve 2024. Facebook \/ Joe Lynskey<\/p>\n

Lynskey suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and PTSD, but he\u2019s not just after a payout: his lawsuit also takes aim at the alleged negligence of passenger safety.<\/p>\n

Lynskey suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and PTSD. Facebook \/ Joe Lynskey<\/p>\n

The \u201chorrific trail of dead bodies and ruined lives\u201d won\u2019t stop until the MTA and city are held \u201caccountable for their negligence, gross negligence, and reckless conduct,\u201d the lawsuit claims.<\/p>\n

The Post previously reported<\/a> on Lynskey\u2019s lucky survival, but his lawsuit says what happened to him was no freak accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Surveillance video showing the horrific shove at the 18th Street Station. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYCTA\/MTA, its engineers and its law department were aware based upon more than 15-20 years of their own internal statistics prior to the Plaintiff being pushed onto the tracks herein, that it was a moral certainty that innocent people, such as the Plaintiff, would be injured if they did not put in platform edge barriers or similar protections in their subway system,\u201d the suit said.<\/p>\n

Lynskey\u2019s alleged shover, Kamel Hawkins<\/a> was arrested later that day and faces a criminal trial on an attempted murder charge.<\/p>\n

The new suit comes just months after a blockbuster $82M jury award<\/a> for a woman who lost an arm and a leg in a similar shove, and also made claims about failures to install platform barriers.<\/p>\n

Kamel Hawkins was charged with attempted murder for the shove. William Farrington<\/p>\n

At that trial, internal MTA documents from 2011 revealed that the transit agency was offered proposals to install platform doors at no cost in exchange for ad revenue.<\/p>\n

Lynskey\u2019s lawsuit claims the agency\u2019s failure to install barriers were due to \u201cpolitical considerations and not safety considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MTA declined to comment on the new lawsuit, but previously said full-sized barriers were \u201cphysically unfeasible\u201d at most stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn music programmer who miraculously survived a New Year\u2019s Eve subway shove into the path of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2850,4327,57,141,9,24,63,122,124,123,1686,58],"class_list":["post-148797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-lawsuits","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-subway-shoves","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}