While technically the number of people who have been hit by subways this year is not statistically unusual, it has managed to seem like a lot. So we really enjoy reading happy subway stories like this one, in which heroes hop onto the tracks to save those who've fallen and can't get out. And now the Post has brought ANOTHER one to our attention.
The tabloid caught up with Harlem cabdriver Isidore Branham yesterday, who saved a drunk man from being crushed by a 2 train at the 135th Street-Lenox Avenue station yesterday. No wonder the number of taxi driver commendations is on the rise!
"I felt this man shouldn’t die this day, not while I knew I was capable," Branham said. "I was the man for the job. I used to work in transit. I’ve been on the tracks. I know how dangerous they are." Branham's friend recalls, "We all started screaming because we saw the 2 train coming."
But Branham wasn't having any of it. Timothy Moriarity, 57, was "inside the railbed between the ties" and clearly wasn't getting out on his own. So Branham, who is training to be a nurse, picked him up from the waist. "I wanted to do a fireman’s carry but there was no time," he recalled. "The train was coming. I grabbed him by his belt. I scooped him up and pushed him on the platform. I curled him and lifted him in front of my body. This guy was really heavy. It was a shock to my body, but I was strong enough."
In the end both Branham and Moriarity got out of the tracks safely. And a new subway hero was born.
