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This shot was taken back in 1988 on an S train. If you look further down, you can see that there are people on all of the benches. The photographer says that people avoided this car like the plague because of the foul odor.
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To the Subwayblogger!!! I live on the weat coast and was wondering if there is any kind of static that showa the number of deaths each year on the New York subways? In all ranges of deaths. Just something that we were tossing aroung in conversation. Thank You C.A
Reply@Chuck Arrowsmith: Depends I guess how you define deaths. Sounds strange, but you do need to be specific.
If you’re only counting suicides, that’s one thing. But what about people that just have a heart attack and die while in the subway?
I heard from a copy buddy that there’s a subway related suicide attempt almost every day of the week…so you do the math. Then again, who knows if they all die.
I do know that “officially” in 2006, there were 23 deaths, with 8 being from natural causes. There were 5 accidents and 5 suicides, 2 murders, and 3 deaths due to unknown causes.
Seems a little low for a system that moves 5 million people each day (Mon-Fri), but take it for what it is worth.
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