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Authorities continue to investigate the incident, which killed Moet McCullum, a 41-year-old mother of three who was working as a construction flagger at the time and is the first MTA worker to die from a subway strike since 2023.
Jeffrey Fleming, a retired flagger who survived a similar episode a decade ago in Brooklyn, says her death is especially painful.
“It’s like it happened all over again,” the 59-year-old told The City Reporter. “You think that after all these years, they would have figured something out for it not to happen again.”
Fleming was hit by a train that pinned him against a tunnel wall and killed his co-worker Louis Gray after the two men had been placing warning lights along a curved section of the tracks. Following the incident, federal transportation safety officials faulted the MTA for lapses in protecting its workers.
McCullum’s death served as a reminder for Fleming of the risks that accompany flagging, a critical safety practice that relies on the use of lights and flags to warn track workers of nearby trains. “You have to be fully alert,” he said. “Fully alert.”
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Midday in Queens, Jamaica-bound F trains skip 75th Avenue, Briarwood and Sutphin Boulevard. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
The City Council will introduce a bill Thursday that could make it easier for officials to revoke city-issued press passes based on the bearer’s behavior.
Speaker Julie Menin and Deputy Leader Chris Banks are proposing to tweak the approval process for press passes, which came into the spotlight after vocal supporters of Luigi Mangione were credentialed to cover his trial for the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown.
“For this system to work as intended, there must be a thoughtful process for issuing credentials and, when necessary, revoking them,” Menin said in a statement.
The bill would swap the current requirement of “clear and convincing” evidence for revoking someone’s press pass to a “preponderance” of evidence, a lower legal standard.
The Council in 2021 moved press pass approvals from the NYPD to a newly created unit in the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Lawmakers argued that police — who arrested journalists during the 2020 George Floyd protests — shouldn’t be in charge of credentialing the press, while others said passes were too difficult to obtain.
— Katie Honan
FAQ NYC Live
History of Terror
Watch a live taping of the third and final episode of The City Reporter’s FAQ NYC podcast special series A Knickerbocker History of America on Friday, Sept. 18. This one is all about terror and features Brooklyn Borough Historian Asad Dandia. Free at P&T Knitwear on the Lower East Side. Doors open at 6:30, recording 7-8 p.m. RSVP here.
New York Story Fest
The oldest human art form is coming to the big stage. After selling out in San Francisco, Detroit and Philadelphia, Story Fest, an official partner of The City Reporter, makes its long-awaited premiere in the city of dreams on Friday, Nov. 20. Tickets are now on sale.
Featuring award-winning journalists and comedians; short film and dance; live music and performance. The ways in which stories are told are as diverse as the stories themselves. From true crime to comedy, politics to poetics, New York Story Fest invites you to experience a brief and piercing look into the soul of this city — its neighborhoods, its contradictions, its grit and its grace. What might you encounter? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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