{"id":369948,"date":"2026-10-10T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369948\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:14:12","slug":"nyc-subway-riders-save-man-who-fell-onto-tracks-at-world-trade-center-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369948\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC subway riders save man who fell onto tracks at World Trade Center station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Straphangers on a Lower Manhattan subway platform jumped into action Saturday morning to pull a man who wound up on the tracks to safety<\/a> after they stopped an incoming train, cops and a witness said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was sort of crazy. It felt a little intense at the moment, but everyone sort of came together and saved the day, I guess,\u201d said Jack Shanley, who was waiting for the Uptown No. 1 train<\/a> at the World Trade Center station<\/a> around 11:30 a.m. when he spotted the 65-year-old man on the tracks and called 911.<\/p>\n

The man had gotten stuck with his foot \u201cwedged between the rail and the ground,\u201d Shanley, 27, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t really making any noise or anything,\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt didn\u2019t even seem like he was really aware that he had fallen on the tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how the man ended up on the tracks, cops said.<\/p>\n

As an incoming train rumbled toward the station, a group of roughly five straphangers standing at the mouth of the station motioned to the train operator to stop, Shanley said. The train halted about 50 to 60 feet from the man.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we saw that the train had stopped,\u201d Shanley said, \u201ctwo people went down into the tracks to help him get himself unstuck, and then others had to lift him up out of there because he couldn\u2019t climb out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shanley said the man didn\u2019t thank anyone, and seemed to have \u201cno idea what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone asked him to sit down, and he just said, \u2018Where do you want me to sit down?\u2019\u201d Shanley said. \u201cOne of the other people who had been talking to him a little bit more, trying to get information from him, said that he said he couldn\u2019t see. I think they asked him how he fell or if he jumped, and he said that he just couldn\u2019t see what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shanley, who was headed home to the Upper West Side when the chaotic scene unfolded, said it was nice to see fellow New Yorkers band together in crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good to see people\u2026 No one was panicking or freaking out; it was kind of very down to business,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople got together and did what they had to do, which is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Straphangers on a Lower Manhattan subway platform jumped into action Saturday morning to pull a man who wound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136505,359,136506,9,11,10,849,1657,7037],"class_list":["post-369948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-fell-onto-tracks","tag-lower-manhattan","tag-man-saved","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc-subway","tag-subway-station","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369948","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=369948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}