Crime & Safety
Video Shows Subway Rescue After Man Fell On Tracks In Lower Manhattan
"Everybody just came together as a community to help him. So it was a beautiful feeling," Delus said.
April 19, 2024
NEW YORK -- A man narrowly avoided getting hit by a subway train in Manhattan, thanks to New Yorkers who helped him onto the platform. The rescue was caught on video.
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One of the women who helped save him is pushing for more mental health resources citywide.
It could've ended much differently for the man, who may have been suffering a mental health episode. He later identified himself to commuter Marie Delus as "Deuce."
"Everybody just came together as a community to help him. So it was a beautiful feeling, but I also was like in the moment like, 'Is he gonna be okay?'" Delus said.
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