14 JUNE 29, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
M.V. civic honors local hero who saved man from train tracks
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@A_GIUDICEREPORT
A young man from Glendale who
jumped onto the tracks to save a
man from an oncoming L train
and the president of the Community
Education Council 24 (CEC 24) were both
honored for their heroics and dedication
to the community during Thursday’s Juniper
Park Civic Association (JPCA) meeting.
During the meeting at Our Lady
of Hope School in Middle Village,
president Robert Holden brought up
Glendale native, 29-year-old Jonathan
Kulig who in April jumped on the
tracks of the L train at Third Avenue in
Manhattan when he saw a young man
fall from the platform onto the tracks.
Kulig was on his way to his overnight
shift with Con Edison when he
saw the man tumble on the tracks. He
immediately ran from the opposite
platform, jumped on the tracks, and
hoisted the man’s body back onto the
platform minutes before an L train
arrived into the station.
For his courageous act of bravery,
Kulig was presented the 2017 Russo
Hero Award by none other than the
award’s namesake, NYPD Lieutenant
John Russo, whose dedicated detective
work helped crack the Karina Vetrano
murder case earlier this year.
Kulig was very humble in receiving
the award.
“Throughout all of this, everyone
keeps throwing around the word
‘hero.’ As much as I appreciate it, to
me, I don’t view myself as a hero,”
Kulig said. “I did the right thing.
There was somebody that needed
help, I had the ability to help, and I
helped. I don’t think that makes me
a hero. It makes me what everybody
else should be.”
JPCA president Robert Holden
presenting CEC24 president Nick
Comaianni with a community service
award.
Nick Comaianni, president of the
CEC24 for 14 years, has officially
retired from the volunteer position,
and was presented with a Community
Service Award for the work he has
done for the area’s schools during his
tenure.
Comaianni was instrumental in
showing the city that District 24 was
the most overcrowded school district
in the entire city, and in getting Maspeth
High School built and zoned for
district students.
“Since then, in my 14 years as president
of the Community Education
Council School Board District 24,
we’ve built approximately, I lost count,
somewhere around 22 new schools
and extensions, more in the history
of all District 24,” Comaianni said.
“And roughly, about 15,000 new seats.”
The JPCA also honored NY1 reporter
Ruschell Boone and several offi cers
from the 104th Precinct with community
service awards for all that they
have done for the communities.
Photos by Anthony Giudice/Ridgewood Times
Robert Holden (left) and Lt. John Russo (center) presenting Glendale
resident Jonathan Kulig (right) with the 2017 Russo Hero Award.
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