According to reports, a man who was pushed onto the New York subway tracks on Saturday was saved by a ballet dancer.
American Ballet Theater dancer Gray Davis was returning home from performing in The Golden Cockerel at the Metropolitan Opera, when he saw a man falling onto the tracks and looked for help. “At first I waited for somebody else to jump down there,” Davis told The New York Times. “People were screaming to get help. But nobody jumped down. So I jumped down.”
Davis lifted the man, who was unconscious, to the platform. Hearing the train approaching, Davis then had to get himself away from danger. “I never realized how high it was,” he said. “Luckily, I’m a ballet dancer, so I swung my leg up.”
It was a coincidence that Davis was there to help. The dancer said he did not realize the potential consequences of what he was doing until after he jumped. “It was really scary,” he said. “I don’t know if I had time to process it until I saw my wife coming down crying—then I realized it was scary.”
Police report the man was homeless. According to reports, he was pushed onto the tracks and lost consciousness after hitting his head. He regained consciousness on his way to the hospital. The authorities arrested a woman accused of pushing him onto the track after an altercation between the two. She denies she pushed the man.
