70-Year-Old Man Rescued from Subway Tracks
A 70-year-old man had a close call at an Upper West Side subway station, according to AM New York. The man reportedly fell onto the tracks of the 1 train at the 103rd Street station around 10:00 am...
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Two window washers were rescued by firefighters after their scaffolding dropped and they dangled from the collapsed mechanism, according to NY1 and New York Daily News. Jesus Ayala and Robert Kaufmann...
View ArticleExotic Bird Mysteriously Found Loose on the UWS
Gothamist (via DNAinfo) reports that an exotic bird whose species is native to southwest Africa was found on the Upper West Side in the bitter cold weather last weekend. Jon Chapman, a New Jersey...
View ArticleROW BOAT FAIL: Couple Falls Into Central Park Lake, Drawing Large Rescue...
Well this must have been more than a little embarrassing… A couple fell out of a row boat and into the Central Park lake yesterday afternoon, drawing a rather large FDNY and NYPD response, including...
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