Life Saved In Sunset Park, Life Lost In Borough Park
A number of media outlets have reported on the daring subway rescue a week ago at the 8th Avenue station of the N-line. 18-year-old Parsons student Rosie Rittenberry passed out and tumbled out onto the tracks. Fellow Sunset Parker Lance McGraw “threw off his headphones and backpack, and jumped down to the roadbed — as the N train bore down on them.” The NY Post has the full story and an adorably adorable picture of the Sunset Park Lois & Clark, and Fox 5 has an interview on video.
I find this story really interesting, not just because of the heroics and the fact that they look super-cute together, but also because on any normal day, I would have been on the train that “bore down” on them. Alas, last Thursday I was running late to the office, much to the chagrin of my 9:30 conference call.
No such feel-good ending in Borough Park this week, when a 4-year-old boy was struck and killed by the rear tires of a yeshiva school bus after slipping on ice (NY Times).
I noticed the commenters at Gothamist immediately jumped on the case of Hasidic bus drivers. OK, I will admit that the guys that drive the yeshiva school buses in Williamsburg are The. Worst. Drivers. I have ever seen this side of Boston, but that hasn’t been my experience at all with the Borough Park buses. Unless there are charges or accusatory eyewitness accounts, can everyone please step off? Thank you.
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