10 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 1–7, 2019
Subway’s mayhem man
Cops arrest alleged serial brake puller for shoving woman
Brooke Sabel
A man threw a woman against a train at Fort
Greene’s Dekalb Avenue station on Oct. 23.
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decline in bus ridership borough
and city-wide.
It also comes as Gowanus,
which the bus once rolled
through, is on the verge of a
rezoning that could bring up
to 8,200 new apartments to
the neighborhood, according
to housing experts.
The B71 once ran from
the Columbia Street Waterfront
District, up Union Street
through Carroll Gardens, Gowanus,
Park Slope, and Prospect
Heights before turning around
in Crown Heights.
The MTA eliminated
the line along with 10 other
Brooklyn bus lines, in 2010,
citing budget cuts.
The petition calls for the
B71 to be restored to its pre-
an extension to be added
through Red Hook to Lower
Manhattan through the Battery
Tunnel. Red Hook is currently
only served by two local
bus lines and a ferry stop,
despite its proximity to the
Battery tube.
Transportation bigwigs
said they are open to suggestions
and encouraged locals to
attend one of the many open
houses, which will be held
regularly starting this week
as part of the Authority’s bus
redesign efforts.
“We encourage the public to
attend one of our open houses
and get involved in the process,”
said authority spokesman Andrei
Berman. “MTA bus planners
will take the feedback they
receive into account.”
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
The man accused of hurling
a woman into a waiting train
at the Dekalb Avenue subway
station Wednesday is the same
guy police arrested earlier this
year for allegedly pulling the
emergency brakes on trains
across the city!
Cops collared 23-year-old
Isaiah Thompson on Thursday
for allegedly pushing an
unsuspecting straphanger into
a train at the Dekalb Avenue
station on Wednesday evening,
according to authorities.
Brooklyn’s boys in blue
caught up with the alleged subway
shover near Coney Island
at around 8:30 pm the following
day and slapped him with four
couldn’t say whether the victim
was hospitalized.
Isaiah was arrested last
May for pulling the emergency
brakes on two trains in Manhattan
— and he is currently
awaiting trial on bail, according
to the New York Post .
The Department’s Chief of
Detectives Dermot Shea called
Thompson a “transit recidivist
offender” on social media , and
authorities believe Thompson is
responsible for more than 700
subway delays by sneaking into
conductors’s cabs and pulling
the emergency brakes, according
to the Post.
Prosecutors for District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez asked for
a $50,000 bail for that case —
but a judge allowed him to walk
without bail, authorities say.
felony charges — attempted assault,
reckless endangerment,
menacing, and criminal trespass,
authorities said.
A video posted on social media
shows the suspect tussling
with another commuter before
shoving a woman from behind
full-force into the side of the
train around 7:19 pm.
Thompson then jumped onto
the tracks and fled into the tunnel,
according to a Police Department
spokeswoman, who
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