Dead man left on Brooklyn platform for hours during week of major subway delays

Subway riders faced hellish commutes this week due to power failures that disrupted service over two separate days. But riders at one Brooklyn station were jolted by a different type of horror.

As the morning rush got underway at the Prospect Park Station on Wednesday, riders waiting to catch Manhattan-bound B and Q trains looked across the tracks to see a body under a black sheet. The deceased 31-year-old man had been pushed into a departing train during a fight around 2:30 a.m., police said.

His body was still there hours later, along with police attending to the crime scene. A photo obtained by Gothamist showed several police officers milling about on the Coney Island-bound platform near the man’s covered body, which authorities said had suffered severe head trauma. The body’s arm dangled off the edge of the platform, making for a disturbing scene…

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