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Man Saves Straphanger Who Fell Into Path of Oncoming 6 Train, NYPD Says

MANHATTAN — A man leapt onto the Canal Street subway tracks to save another who'd fallen into the path of an oncoming 6 train Wednesday night, police said.

Nicholas Buxton, 25, of White Street, was on the platform of the station near Lafayette Street about 8:15 p.m. when he saw Mathew Martin, 33, of Sayville, Long Island, tumble into the northbound trackbed, sources said.

Buxton jumped in after him, but he was too heavy for him to lift back to the platform, sources said.

With a northbound 6 train barreling down, the good Samaritan pushed Martin into the gap under the platform, police said.

Buxton was helped out of the trackbed by another good Samaritan, identified by sources as Luis Daniel Figueroa.

Off-duty NYPD Sergeant Alfred Ricci, who was also in the station, witnessed the commotion and jumped into the track bed himself, pulling the emergency power lever to cut off electricity to the track, the sources said.

The man who fell, who is in his 30s, was treated at Bellevue Hospital for a dislocated shoulder and bruised hip and was in stable condition, police said