Reports: NYC Subway Uses Break Rooms to Store Dead Bodies

In this June 27, 2017 file photo, emergency service personnel work at the scene of a subwa
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NEW YORK CITY — In an effort to restore service to the city’s ailing subway system, cops have allegedly resorted to storing “leaking” dead bodies in employee break areas inside subway stations.

The New York Post cites sources claiming that the corpses of those killed on subway tracks are carted off to “whatever room happens to be nearest” including the lunch rooms of poor Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) employees.

One agent, LaShawn Jones recalled that about five years ago she stopped in the employee bathroom only to see the NYPD Emergency Service Unit handling a cadaver.

She said she later returned and, while the body was gone, she saw “hair and scalp and basically body parts in the sink.” After she complained to her supervisor the body was removed.

But the employee union says the problem is widespread and has been going on for years.

“You have pieces, you have blood spatter,” Derek Echevarria, the vice president of union TWU Local 100, told NY1. “It could be any contamination or disease.”

The union did not want members to reveal details of incidents for fear of repri­sal, but said that many had been traumatized by the experience, according to the Chief Leader. “It just reflects a lack of respect for the people that work here and a disrespect for the body,”  one TWU Local 100 member told the Leader. “It just bothers you. You have to eat your lunch there.”

A spokesman for the union blasted Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio for not providing enough staffing to prevent the storing of cadavers in utility rooms, calling it “unacceptable” that workers have to experience it.

“Mayor de Blasio and his administration have failed to provide enough staffing for the Medical Examiner’s Office to quickly retrieve and remove bodies from the subway after these tragedies,”  the TWU Local 100 spokesperson said in a statement to the Post.

An MTA spokesperson told the Post that bodies are temporarily being kept in non-public areas” only until the medical examiner arrives, while City Hall said they “are committed to reducing our response times even further to ensure both the humane treatment of the deceased and the health of subway workers and straphangers.”

Adam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY

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