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QUEENS WEEKLY, JUNE 16, 2019
7 Train
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Assault
The NYPD released on
June 10 video footage of the
mom responsible for the
April 15 assault at the 71-
Continental Avenues
subway station.
At 9 a.m. on the day
of the attack, police said,
the 53-year-old victim was
boarding a Manhattanbound
E train when she
accidentally came into
contact with the mother,
who was exiting the train.
Seconds later, law
enforcement sources
said, the mother ran back
into the car and punched
the victim in the face,
then exited from the
train on foot.
The victim suffered
a bruise to her left eye,
but remained on board
the train. Cops said
she later called 911 and
sought treatment for
her injuries at NewYork-
Presbyterian Lower
Manhattan Hospital.
The incident was
reported to the 112th
Precinct and the NYPD
Transit Bureau.
Police described the
assailant as a white woman
with a light complexion
believed to be 30 years
of age, who was last seen
wearing a white baseball
cap, a pink shirt and dark
pants while pushing a
stroller and carrying
an infant.
In the video, she can
bee seen holding her
child while pushing a
button for an elevator on
the platform.
Anyone with
information regarding the
suspect’s whereabouts can
call Crime Stoppers at 800-
577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial
888-57-PISTA). All calls are
kept confidcential.
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ability to see what’s going
below the structure, it must
also be robust enough.”
On June 3, after a piece
of metal fell from the line
near 53rd Street, about 10
to 15 feet from a pedestrian,
New York City Transit
said they would deploy
netting in some places to
evaluate the effectiveness
of deploying the method for
widely for public safety.
This was not an
isolated incident.
In February and March
there were instances
where a wooden beam fell
through the windshield of
an occupied vehicle and
another car that got struck
by a chunk of metal. Nobody
was injured in either
incident, but it happened
again to another car in
Long Island City, followed
by large bolt landing on a
woman’s car under the A
train in Richmond Hill.
“We’re not the only
system that struggles with
this issue and we’re not
going to be able to tackle it
just as New York City alone,
so we’re working with
other agencies throughout
the country and the world
to learn more about what
they’re doing in terms of
their elevated inspections.
What they’re doing to
secure the underside,” said
Senior Vice President of
Subways Sally Librera. “So
we’re learning as we go.”
Byford prefaced the
meeting by highlighting
how far the system has come
in the two years since what
Governor Andrew Cuomo
dubbed the “summer of
hell.” Widespread delays,
service meltdowns and
a derailment at 125th
Street in Harlem led to
Cuomo declaring a state of
emergency for transit in
the subway.
The worst of these
issues overlapped with
Amtrak, which owns Penn
Station, shutting down 20
percent of Long Island Rail
Road tracks in the station
to address of backlog
of repairs.
To this, Byford attributed
much of the improvement
to employee empowerment
and the deployment of
Communications-Based
Train Control (CBTC)
to replace to century-old
analog signals there were
still in use.
Both the 7 train and the
L have full deployment of
CBTC which means the
Flushing line can now run
29 trains per hour over the
previous 22. But Byford
said this capacity could be
raised even further.
As consolation for the
woes straphangers have
experienced over the years
across the city, Byford
commented that the system
is not irredeemable.
Not long ago, he noted,
London’s underground
was in a similar state and
brought up to modern
standards British
commuters comparatively
enjoy today.
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A Flushing-bound 7 train at Queensboro Plaza Station. Photo: Mark Hallum/QNS
Photo courtesy of NYPD