Crime & Safety

Man Rescued From Bed-Stuy Train Tracks: Watch

Dramatic body-worn camera footage shows NYPD officers pulling a 68-year-old from a subway track in Brooklyn.

A man fell onto the train tracks in Brooklyn Monday.
A man fell onto the train tracks in Brooklyn Monday. (NYPD)

BED-STUY, NY — A medical episode sent a 68-year-old tumbling onto train tracks in Bed-Stuy Monday, and the hair-raising rescue was caught on video.

The man fell onto the tracks at the Utica Avenue station about 10:30 p.m., police said.

Body-worn camera footage shows two officers, which police identified as officers Baez and Hall, jumping down onto the tracks, grabbing the man and struggling to lift him onto the platform.

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"Please, please, please — come on," one of the officers is heard saying as a third officer helps pull the man up from the platform.

The officers pulled the 68-year-old off the tracks before any trains came, but the man injured his arm falling down, police said. He was sent to an area hospital in stable condition.

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