Woman Pulled From Path Of BK Subway By MTA Staff, Bystanders

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A woman who climbed onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn on Monday was saved by bystanders and MTA staff who acted quickly to stop the oncoming train, officials and witnesses said.

Witnesses said the woman, who climbed down to Church Avenue-bound Fulton Street station tracks around 4 p.m., appeared to be trying to take her own life. She got onto the tracks just as a G train was pulling into the station, MTA Chairman Pat Foye said at an unrelated press conference Tuesday.

One witness, who was on the other side of the tracks, said she heard somebody shout "It's never that serious" before looking over to see the woman on the rails.

"Next thing I knew she was on the tracks," the witness, Ashley, told Patch over Twitter. "(My boyfriend) and I were on the Queens side and he literally ran to the other side to waive the driver down to stop.

Ashley's boyfriend and other onlookers waved down the oncoming G train and got the attention of Eric Boyles, the train operator. Boyles and two bystanders helped the woman up and brought her over to a bench, Ashley said.

She added that the woman bolted out of the station once she was back on the platform. Foye said Boyles and his line supervisor escorted the woman out of the subway and she was brought to a local hospital.

"Great work by two of our colleagues yesterday," Foye said.

Ashley said that the MTA staff were "as kind and gentle as one could be" when helping the woman up.

This isn't the first time MTA's staff have helped save the lives of people who ended up in the path of their trains.

Just last month, train operator Hopetin Kiffin was named a Brooklyn hero by Borough President Eric Adams for saving a 13-year-old boy with autism who had climbed onto the tracks in front of his 5 train at Hoyt Street station.

Bystanders helped that time, too. A person on the platform that was pointing to the tracks helped get Kiffin's attention as the 5 train was moving 15 mph into the station.