MTA officers are credited with saving the life of a 70-year-old man who had a heart attack in Grand Central Terminal last month.
According to the MTA, officers saw Moises Dreszer, who was visiting from Kentucky, collapse while pausing for a drink of water in the 47th Street cross passageway, having apparently gone into cardiac arrest.
A Metro-North commuter, who also happened to be a volunteer fire fighter, rushed to administer CPR while an assistant station manager kept Dreszer's airway open. Another officer quickly procured a defibrillator. With the help of several other assembled officers, Dreszer was given two shocks from the defibrillator, which restored his pulse.
"This wonderful man, who I call an 'angel,' started helping us," Dreszer's wife, Cathy, said in a video produced by the MTA. "These wonderful police directed everybody, they got all the people off the down escalator and turned that escalator around to make it go up and carried him out."
Dreszer was taken to NYU Langone Medical Center, and was released last Thursday. He has returned to Louisville weak but happy to be alive.
In recounting the events for the video, both Dreszer and Cathy grow teary. "All New Yorkers—your emergency people are so capable and so fabulous," Cathy said. "You have great citizens in this city." Aww!
