By Patrick Hedlund
DNAinfo News Editor
BROOKLYN — The woman who was saved from an oncoming L train in Union Square by a mysterious subway hero returned to her East Williamsburg apartment Thursday afternoon.
Jessica Oshita, 26, was shielded by her father, Gary Oshita, as she returned home after several days in Bellevue Hospital recovering from minor injuries suffered after she fainted on the subway platform and fell to the track below.
"We want to thank the man who saved her," Gary Oshita said as he whisked his daughter, who was covering her face, past reporters. "She is definitely feeling better."
Later in the day, when Gary Oshita briefly left the apartment to pick up groceries, he said he wished the man would come forward.
"He really did a great thing, and we want to thank him."
Meanwhile, the city has a new subway Superman — but this mystery hero apparently prefers the role of Clark Kent.
The unidentified man who saved Oshita — who police and witnesses described only as a black male — hasn't come forward to acknowledge his deed.
"I don't know who he is, but he saved her life," said Will Robbins, Oshita's roommate for the past year, outside their Grand Street apartment early Thursday afternoon.
Oshita was feeling unsteady Monday afternoon and decided to head home, said Robbins, 29. Seeing the crowded subway platform at Union Square, she opted to catch an Eighth Avenue-bound train so she could grab a seat on the waiting Brooklyn-bound train.
"She felt lightheaded and literally just fainted," Robbins said. "She was out cold."
Seeing her fall to the tracks, the quick-thinking bystander jumped down after her. Unable to lift the woman and seeing the lights of an oncoming train, the mystery man placed Oshita inside the track bed between the rails where the train could pass over her, transit officials said.
"This Good Samaritan, he laid her down in the gutter between the tracks," said Robbins. "The only place there is clearance."
The train then made a full entrance into the station, and avoided hitting the woman as she remained underneath the sixth car, according to transit officials.
But Oshita's knight in shining armor didn't stick around.
"She doesn't remember anything about the guy or what happened," Robbins said. "She was unconscious."
He added that despite the "nicks and scrapes" she suffered, Oshita was "in really good spirits" on Thursday.
"She was making jokes the night it happened," he said. "She's a tough girl.
If anyone has any tips to his whereabouts or witnessed the incident, e-mail newsroom@dnainfo.com or call 646-435-9091.
