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Watch: NYC Subway Passenger Gives Own Shirt to Homeless Man
As well as the hat off his head.
Screenshot via Läzaro El Feo/Facebook
MANHATTAN, NY — A kindhearted New York City subway passenger has redeemed the good name of the A Train.
As temperatures plummeted toward freezing last Friday, our hero, known only as “Jay,” was caught on video gifting a partially undressed homeless man on the Brooklyn-bound A Train his own shirt and hat.
The video — uploaded Friday to Facebook by Jamaica, Queens, resident Lazaro Nolasco and viewed 11 million times by Sunday night — shows Jay helping his fellow passenger into a plain white T and a black beanie, somewhere between 125th and 59th streets in upper Manhattan.
“The guy didn’t have a shirt on,” Nolasco told the New York Daily News. “His body looked sick.”
It’s hard to make out the conversation between Jay and the homeless guy over the rattling of the subway car. According to Nolasco, though, Jay asked the guy whether he needed a shirt and whether he needed to go to a hospital — to which the guy reportedly answered “Yes,” on both counts.
“This man deserves many blessings for his good deed,” Nolaso wrote in Spanish on Facebook. “May God bless him.”
The videographer added: “We need more people like him. If someone knows him, tag him.”
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