By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
EAST HARLEM — An East Harlem man saved a man who fell onto the subway tracks and still managed to get to work on time on Sunday, according to the New York Daily News.
Subway hero Carlos Flores, 36, said part of his motivation for saving the elderly man was to avoid a train delay that would keep him from getting to work in a timely fashion, the paper reported.
"I was thinking, if he gets hit I can't go to work. It's Sunday. I can't miss out. It's a time-and-a-half day," Flores, who works at a grocery store in NoHo, told the Daily News.
Flores jumped down into the tracks of the downtown 6 train to save the straphanger at about 8 a.m. on Sunday.
Others waiting for the train yelled at the man to get up after he apparently fainted and fell on the tracks, according to the News.
Flores decided to attempt a rescue after seeing on a digital countdown clock that the next train was three minutes away from the 103rd Street station, the paper reported.
"I jumped on the tracks. I grabbed him. I stood him up," Flores told the News. "I'm walking him toward the platform. A guy on the platform grabs his hands. Now I'm down there. The train is coming."
NYC Transit spokeswoman Deirdre Parker told the News that a customer had informed the station agent of the emergency. The agent radioed into the Rail Control Center in time to notify the train’s conductor to stop the subway just as it entered the station.
"[The] train operator did see someone on the tracks," Parker told the paper. "The customer [Flores] did help bring that person to the platform."
