PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Police saved a suicidal man who climbed onto the subway tracks at Eastern Parkway this weekend, NYPD officials said.
The man called 911 in the middle of the night on Saturday and told to the operator that he planned to lie down on the subway tracks at the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum station stop on the 2 and 3 line, then hung up, police said.
When police arrived at the Prospect Heights station, officers from Transit District 32 saw the man walking between the north and southbound tracks, and coordinated with the station’s MTA workers to cut power to the line.
The officers, joined by two others from the nearby 78th Precinct, then went down onto the tracks and removed the 25-year-old man, who “began to cry uncontrollably,” police said in a statement about the rescue.
The man was taken to Kings County Hospital for treatment.
