By Tom Hays 

A grim subway reality: Corpses sometimes kept in break rooms

 

August 18, 2017



NEW YORK (AP) — It's a largely overlooked but gory reality of the New York City subway system: When someone takes their life by jumping in front of a train, police need to find a place to put the mutilated body until a medical examiner truck arrives.

Sometimes, transit workers say, that place is their break room or bathrooms. And naturally, they don't like it. Some say they have been traumatized by unexpectedly coming upon a stowed body.

"The subway isn't supposed to be New York City's temporary morgue," said John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union International.

In one of the lat...



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