July 27, 2006

Death on the R Train ( updated )

At 7am this morning, there were lots of police at the Bay Ridge Avenue R station. Some poor soul was run over by the R train today. That's why there were big delays in Bay Ridge today. I was told this morning by transit employees at the station, and I overheard an NYPD detective saying that they "had to get him out of there"

Update: a transit employee told me that the man killed was walking on the train tracks. I will speculate that this may have been a homeless man going to or from a small emcampment that has always been there under or near the Bay Ridge Towers.
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/27/2006 10:06 AM

    Jumped? Pushed?

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  2. The Phantom7/27/2006 11:43 AM

    Don't know.

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  3. Anonymous7/27/2006 2:33 PM

    How'd you find this out? I've been looking all morning for information on this.

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  4. Anonymous7/28/2006 12:52 AM

    Hi, wasn't this blog formerly called 'The View from 103' or something similar?

    I just read your very interesting July 17 blog about Google and look forward to an update.

    Thanks.

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  5. The Phantom7/28/2006 9:48 AM

    Anon

    Yes, I had run two blogs, "View" which was my blatherings about politics etc and "Bay Ridge" was just comments about the neighborhood.

    I do not write a lot, so I just decided to fold 103 into this one.

    Google- I will update on that soon. This was a pet peeve, but there is a happy ending on the way.

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  6. Anonymous7/28/2006 6:16 PM

    Thanks Phantom. Very interested in hearing your story about Google. Own any of its stock, do you?

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  7. Anonymous7/28/2006 8:03 PM

    I didn't hear anything on the news was pretty odd I didn't.

    In fact if it wasn't for Bayridgetalk.com I would have known nothing.

    heres a link to my new article.

    http://SearchWarp.com/swa81887.htm

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  8. The Phantom7/28/2006 9:13 PM

    Own google stock?

    Nah.

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  9. Anonymous7/28/2006 10:44 PM

    the shuttle bus driver told us that somebody was hit by a train at bay ridge avenue

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