A portal about subway hero Wesley Autrey. He made a quick decision to jump onto a subway track in New York to rescue a stranger from an approaching train. Construction worker Wesley Autrey is being praised as "the hero of Harlem" for the...
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A portal about subway hero Wesley Autrey. He made a quick decision to jump onto a subway track in New York to rescue a stranger from an approaching train. Construction worker Wesley Autrey is being praised as "the hero of Harlem" for the rescue of a young man who suffered a seizure and fell onto subway tracks.
Mr. Wesley Autrey, the NYC man who saved the life of a passenger who fell on the subway tracks, recently became a colon cancer spokesman. Excerpt: "The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) today announced the launch of a public health campaign featuring Wesley Autrey, who came to the rescue of a fellow New Yorker who fell into the subway tracks last January, to get New Yorkers 50 and older screened for... Read Full Story
NEW YORK – A man’s daring rescue of a teen who fell on the subway tracks earned him the unique title “the hero of Harlem” on Thursday, plus $10,000 from Donald Trump and a trip to Disney World.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg bestowed the title upon Wesley Autrey as he presented him with the city’s highest award for civic achievement, calling the 50-year-old construction worker “a great man — a man who makes us all proud to be New Yorkers.”
On Tuesday, Autrey saw Cameron Hollopeter, a 19-year-old... Read Full Story
New MTA executive director Elliott "Lee" Sander thanked Wesley Autry by
saying, "By selflessly leaping to the aid of a fellow New Yorker and
performing a type of heroic act nearly unrecallable to the memories of
veteran transit workers, Wesley Autrey has captured the spirit of our
city." Read Full Story
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here is a link to my song "A Hero's Call".
It is a tribute to Wesley Autrey,the Subway Samaritan.
http://www.esnips.com/web/besossOtherStuff Read Full Story
Rachel Maddow talked last night to NYC subway hero Chad Lindsey , who I posted about in my news round-up yesterday . Lindsey saved a man who had fallen on the C Train subway tracks at Penn Station. Maddow talked to Lindsey about the experience. Here's the NYT write-up as well. Read Full Story
Doctor Wesley McClaren is an immunologist in Ennis, Montana, and he has turned down an offer to join his friend Richard Bach, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the head of a unit called the Biological Response Team (BRT). Wesley and his daughter Holly live on a farm in Ennis, and a farmhand named Frank lives with them. Just over the hill from the farm, a 52 day standoff against militia leader Floyd Chisolm has ended. Floyd has decided to be his own attorney in court. Everyone is shocked... Read Full Story
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