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Kings Highway Station Fall Onto The Tracks
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[flickr/kevinly]
Stand clear of the platform edge and then some: A 14-year-old boy fell into the tracks at the Kings Highway subway station when the partial platform collapsed. Avi Katz was able to get away before the approaching Q train made it into the station.
Katz had been at the station around 6PM on January 29 and, per WABC 7, “stepped onto the edge of the platform to see if his train was coming.” The platform, made of wood, cracked and Katz fell three feet into the tracks. Katz, accompanied by his mother and Assemblyman Dov Hikind, spoke at a press conference, “I was laying on the tracks and I was really scared. My yarmulke fell off and I didn’t even care. I saw the train coming and all I could think was, ‘Get up, get up - this isn’t how I want to die.’”
Katz said it was hard for him to get up and after three attempts, he managed to get back to the platform. Though the MTA did patch up the platform, Hikind questioned the MTA’s commitment to maintenance; pointing to the decrepit conditions (per WCBS 2, “crumbling concrete, rotted wood, and burned-out lightbulbs”), he asked, “This is our transit system that we spend billions and billions of dollars for it to look like this, at one of the busiest transit stations?”
And right now, Katz is too scared to take the subway: “I just, every single time I see the train pass by I’m thinking about me on the tracks.”
Posted: February 11th, 2008 under Accidents, Kings Highway, Video.
Comments: 4
A trip on the B31
There really hasn’t been any news recently so I kept track of my trip on the B31.
To Kings Highway (Empty - 15 Minutes)
- 9:10 am - Lois Avenue
- 9:11 am - Library
- 9:15 am - Ave V
- 9:17 am - Ave U
- 9:21 am - Nostrand
- 9:24 am - Ocean Ave
- 9:25 am - Kings Highway
From Kings Highway (Standing Room Only - 16 Minutes)
- 7:10 pm - Kings Highway
- 7:12 pm - Ocean Avenue
- 7:14 pm - Bedford Avenue
- 7:15 pm - Nostrand
- 7:16 pm - on Gerritsen Avenue
- 7:19 pm - Avenue U
- 7:21 pm - Brynes
- 7:22 pm - Channel Avenue
- 7:24 pm - Library
- 7:26 pm - Lois Avenue
Posted: January 30th, 2008 under Avenue, B31, Kings Highway, NYCity.
Comments: 6
Tis’ The Season Kings Highway BID Edition
The Kings Highway Business Improvement District was establish in 1990 to enhance business on one of Brooklyn’s most dynamic outdoor retail corridors. Long known as a great place to shop, the area that the Kings Highway Business Improvement District encompasses stretches from Ocean Avenue on the east to Ocean Parkway on the west and two short blocks on Quentin Road.
Posted: December 13th, 2007 under Christmas, Kings Highway.
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