{"id":204754,"date":"2026-04-21T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:54:10","slug":"man-fatally-struck-by-queens-7-train-causing-morning-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204754\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally struck by Queens 7 train, causing morning delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/14581502009_c41aab9261_o.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"7 train running in Queens\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Man fatally struck by Queens 7 train, causing morning delays 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Cashin\/MTA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The 7 line is running with delays Tuesday morning hours after a straphanger was struck and killed by a train in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/queens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Queens<\/a>, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mta.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MTA<\/a> and NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 within the NYPD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd115pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">115th Precinct<\/a> and Transit District 20.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found an unconscious and unresponsive man on the tracks, who was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The victim\u2019s identity is still unknown.\n<\/p>\n<p>Cops do not suspect any criminality in the incident, and police sources said an eyewitness saw the man fall on the tracks.\n<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA is encouraging Queens commuters to use the E, F, M, or R trains as alternatives.\n<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 7 line is running with delays Tuesday morning hours after a straphanger was struck and killed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10519,81064,141,9,24,63,103,81065,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-204754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-7-train","9":"tag-junction-blvd","10":"tag-mta","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nypd","15":"tag-person-struck-by-train","16":"tag-staten-island","17":"tag-staten-island-headlines","18":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204754","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=204754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}