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…