Transit worker, Marvin Franklin, 55, of St. Albans, Queens died yesterday after being hit by a G-train. A reader writes that "Marvin
was also a gifted artist. He has work up right now at the Art Students’
League. And he was an amazing, warm, laughing person." This from the New York Times:

One transit worker was killed and another injured yesterday
afternoon when they were hit by a G train at a Brooklyn station, city
officials said. It was the second fatal accident involving track
workers in less than a week.

The northbound G train hit the
workers in the Hoyt Street-Schermerhorn Street station just after 4
p.m. One of them, Marvin Franklin, 55, of St. Albans, Queens, a transit
employee for more than 20 years, was apparently dragged half the length
of the station and was found dead under the train. The second worker,
Jeff Hill, 41, a track worker since 2005, was taken to Bellevue
Hospital Center, where he was in stable condition last night, the
police said.

As a result of the recent back-to-back accidents,
maintenance and construction work on subway tracks was suspended and
workers were being called in for refresher safety training. An
investigation will be held by a transit board of inquiry.

Yesterday’s
accident happened during a weekend-long shutdown of the A and C lines
in part of Brooklyn, to allow for a major renovation of the concrete
track bed. Mr. Franklin and Mr. Hill were not working on that project
but were part of a maintenance crew that was taking advantage of the
shutdown to do routine repairs that involved replacing metal plates
that sit between the rails and the track ties. While no trains were
running on the A and C lines at Hoyt-Schermerhorn, there was normal
service on the G, which runs on parallel tracks at that station.