NEW YORK—Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Council Member Eric Gioia honored Chad Lindsey, the off-Broadway actor who saved a 60-year-old Bronx resident last week after the man fell onto the subway track at the 34th Street ACE Station.
Mr. Lindsey, a 33-year-old actor from Harbor Springs, Mich., who now resides in Woodside, Queens, was on the platform when he saw a man step too close the edge and then slip off the platform and down into the tracks. The man hit his head on the rail and lost consciousness, and Lindsey jumped on to the tracks to help the man.
“He was bleeding all over the place and I tried to wake him up but I couldn’t … I looked up and saw that the train was headed in so I lifted him up and some other guys on the platform helped pull him up,” said Lindsey, “and then I got out of there as fast I could.” Lindsey jumped back onto the platform about 10-15 seconds before the train arrived in the station.
Lindsey says that the platform is higher than you think from down in the tracks. When asked how he managed the feat of lifting a man out and then jumping to safety while a train was coming he said, “I was on fire … I don’t remember how I got out but I got out.”
Lindsey may have been at least partially aided by learning to lift a person in the play he is currently in, each night he lifts another actor. Lindsey is now playing in Kasper Hauser: a foundling’s opera, running through Saturday at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa.
