When the lady was pushed, I told my husband, ‘I have my job, but maybe I should stay home?’ It’s not safe to go outside.” “You don’t know who you are standing next to. “I’m scared, especially when I’m near the yellow line,” Oteng said at the Bryant Park station. Alec Tabakīronx home health aide Matilda Oteng said the fear of riding the rails has her so frightened, she’s considered quitting her job. Overhead, the loudspeaker blared, “Please stand away from the platform edge.” Stephanie Martinez says she is always attentive, especially with her children. I lock the stroller and I stand in the middle of the platform and I look around me to see, like, someone looking suspicious or homeless.” “I’m afraid to go on the train now,” the mom said while waiting for the 2 train. Martinez, a medical assistant from Brooklyn, said her head is now constantly on a pivot in wake of the death of Michelle Go, who was pushed in front of an oncoming R train by a deranged vagrant just days ago. “I always have to be attentive and it’s scary because you don’t know who is behind your back.” “I always have to think about, what if they push me with my kids?” mom Stephanie Martinez, 28, admitted while clutching her 7-year-old son’s hand and keeping a tight grip on her younger son’s stroller at the Times Square station. Homeless man randomly attacked straphanger with baton at NYC’s Grand Central: policeġ8-year-old stabbed to death in brawl on D train in downtown Brooklynīig Apple straphangers are in survival mode amid a surge in transit violence - and renewed fears following Saturday’s unprovoked subway shoving death in Times Square. Los Angeles under fire for blaring classical music in train stations to deter homeless people NYC subway shooting that left teen dead was gang-related: officials
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