Rough commute
COURIER L 28 IFE, NOV. 1-7, 2019
(left to right) Stuart H. Lubow, Molly Dougherty, Robert Fox, and Steve
Miley. Photo by Derrick Watterson
BY JOE HITI
Financial bigwigs at
Dime Community Bank donated
$5,000 to help fund
breast cancer research at
the American Cancer Society
on Oct 29.
“Dime is proud to partner
with the American Cancer
Society in helping individuals
and families in
our neighboring communities
connect to essential resources
and services in the
fi ght against cancer,” said
Dime Senior Executive Stuart
Lubow.
The high-dollar donation
was part of the cancer society’s
Making Strides Against
Cancer 2019 campaign — the
largest network of breast
cancer events in the nation.
Dime has been a corporate
sponsor of the annual
fundraising event since
2015, and helps unite the
bank and the community
around the common goal of
beating the deadly disease
— which claims the lives of
over 40,000 people each year .
“This is not only a cause
that’s near and dear to my
heart — it’s one that greatly
impacts our employees, customers
and neighbors,” said
Lubow.
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Not him again!
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
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
A man threw a woman against a train at Fort Greene’s Dekalb Avenue
station on Oct. 23. Brooke Sabel
train around 7:19 pm.
Thompson then jumped
onto the tracks and fl ed into the
tunnel, according to a Police
Department spokeswoman,
who 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.
He also was nabbed again
by police in Brooklyn after
subway-surfi ng in August.
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.
A Dime for charity!
Cops arrest alleged serial brake puller for shoving woman into train
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