A person was reported hit by a subway train at the Roosevelt Island subway station early this morning.
NYPD, FDNY and EMS personnel were on the scene.
A Roosevelt Island resident asked:
I just heard that someone got pushed onto the subway tracks on RI this morning. Any truth?
I asked the FDNY:
There are reports that a person was struck by a train at the Roosevelt Island subway station and the FDNY responded to the person under the train this morning.
Is that true?
Do you have any information on the incident?
What is the condition of the person?
Was the person pushed by someone or did the person fall on their own?
A FDNY spokesperson replied:
Main Street Train Station
Call received @ 06:12
Reported person struck by train
EMS pronounced one patient DOA on scene
No pedigree / additional
No pedigree means we don’t have the victim’s pedigree. Age, sex, gender etc.
There will be no more information provided on this call.
I asked the NYPD for more information. According to a NYPD spokesperson, a man in the subway tunnel 200 feet from the Roosevelt Island subway station jumped in front of an oncoming southbound F train and was killed at approximately 6:20 this morning. The man was not a victim of a crime.
No further information is available at this time.