Obituaries
Man Killed by Northbound N Train in Brooklyn
The 56-year-old victim was standing on the platform but had stuck his head into the train's path, according to the MTA.
A 56-year-old man was killed on Sunday morning when he was hit by a northbound N Train in Brooklyn.
The man was standing on the N Train platform of the 8th Avenue station — located at the intersection of the Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Sunset Park neighborhoods — when he was struck and killed around 9:50 a.m., according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
“He had his head sticking out,” an MTA spokeswoman told Patch. ”The train operator put the train brakes in emergency [mode] but found that the train could not stop in time.”
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Police said the man was already dead when the NYPD responded to at the station at around 10:15 a.m.
“Right now it’s a possibility of a suicide,” an NYPD spokeswoman said, ”but we don’t know entirely yet.”
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The man’s identification was being withheld on Sunday morning, pending family notification.
As of 11 a.m., N Trains were bypassing the 8th Avenue station ”due to NYPD investigation of a customer injury,” according to the MTA website.
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