South Ozone Park’s Pooran Mohabir became a New York City hero when he came to the rescue of a great-grandfather who was pushed onto the subway tracks on the Upper East Side by a suspect who remains at large.
Courtesy of Pooran Mohabir
A union electrician from South Ozone Park has become a New York City subway hero after coming to the rescue of an elderly man who was shoved to the tracks in an unprovoked attack at an Upper East Side subway station early Tuesday morning.
Electrical foreman Pooran Mohabir, 33, a member of United Electrical Workers of America (UEWA) Local 363, was doing overnight construction modernization at the 68th Street-Hunter College station as a member of a five-man union crew from RMD Electric, a subcontractor of the MTA, when he heard a commotion emanating from the subway platform.
“I was on duty and on the mezzanine level when I heard shouting on the level below, ” Mohabir said. “I originally thought nothing of it until I went down to the platform to see for myself. I saw a man in need and no one else was nearby to help him. His head was only a foot away from the third rail, which I knew could be fatal.”
He discovered a 74-year-old great grandfather who had been waiting for a 6 train just after midnight when an unhinged man who was reportedly shouting to himself pushed him from behind before landing directly on his back with his neck on the tracks. Mohabir sprang into action as the assailant rushed past him, fleeing the station on the stairway towards Lexington Avenue. Mohabir jumped down to the tracks and pulled the elderly man to safety and stayed with him until authorities arrived on the scene.
Initially the victim’s injuries appeared minor — consisting of cuts and bruises — but NYPD Assistant Chief Joseph Kenny said the elderly man needed to be rushed by EMS to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to be treated for multiple rib, pelvic and spinal fractures. The victim was stabilized and listed in…
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