VIDEO: Con Ed Engineer Rescues Man From L Train Tracks

EAST VILLAGE, NY — A ConEd engineer saved the life of a man who fell onto subway tracks at an L train station, police said.

Dramatic video footage taken Saturday evening shows engineer Jonathan Kulig jumping onto the tracks to rescue a man lying there.

The 23-year-old man was intoxicated and had apparently fallen from the subway platform onto the tracks at the station at 14th Street and Third Avenue, an NYPD spokesperson told Patch.

Kulig said during an interview with Good Day New York that he was exiting an Eighth Avenue bound train when he heard people shouting on the opposite platform.

Kulig said that he at first thought the man was a blanket, but said that when he saw movement he realized it was a person and leapt into action.

Kulig hopped onto the tracks and crossed to the Brooklyn-bound side of the station as he heard the automated MTA message announcing that a Brooklyn-bound train was minutes away, he said on Good Day New York.

The footage, posted online, shows Kulig picking up the unidentified man and placing him safely on the platform before hoisting himself up. Kulig and another bystander tended to the man, who appears ill, as a train rushes into the station.

The video shows about 60 seconds passing between when Kulig sprung into action and when the train arrived in the station.

"You see someone that needs help, and you do it," Kulig said of his rescue efforts.

Kulig, 29, is an engineering supervisor at Con Ed, according to his Linked In page.

A spokesman for the MTA said the agency had no record of the incident. A ConEd spokesman confirmed that Kulig was an employee and referred Patch to his interview with Good Day New York.

The NYPD said that paramedics brought the man, who has not been identified, to a nearby hospital after the fall.

Lead image via Ciara McCarthy/Patch.