Travelers must serve Penn-ance
A WOODEN hammock blew off a lower Manhattan building Tuesday and hit a British tourist in the head as she walked by, officials said.
The hammock flew off a fifth-floor landing of a 22-story building on Church St. near Park Place at about 5 p.m., cops said.
It landed on the 48-year-old victim as she walked down the sidewalk with her husband, cops said.
“I heard a loud noise, then I ran out. The woman was laying on her back and her left leg was twisted up,” said the manager COMMUTERS AT Penn Station were hammered with yet another delay Tuesday, this one caused by a downed overhead cable wire — and they’ll have to deal with worse service before it gets better, an Amtrak official said Tuesday.
Amtrak, which owns and maintains Penn Station, is developing a infrastructure repair plan that will mean more disruptions and delays at the hub that also serves NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road.
A source familiar with the plan said Amtrak would take at least nine tracks that it shares with NJ Transit for repair work during daylight hours.
On Tuesday, NJ Transit and LIRR trains were delayed almost an hour during the afternoon rush, after a downed overhead wire in one of the East River tunnels leading to the terminal caused massive backups.
While many commuters shrugged at the wait times, others were less amused.
“There’s always some kind of issue," said Samantha Butisingh, 28, of Linden. "It's always something." of a nearby shop. “There was no blood or anything, but her leg was twisted up at different angles and she couldn't move.”
The woman stared blankly as first responders rushed to help her while using an umbrella to shield her from the rain.
Medics took the woman to Bellevue Hospital.
She was conscious and in serious but stable condition, police said.
Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said that it’ll brief its fellow transit agencies within days on the repair plan and find ways to keep delays to a minimum.
“We are putting together plans to renew the infrastructure at New York Penn Station that will result in some delays and cancellations,” Woods said. The failure to maintain equipment and tracks lead to two recent derailments at Penn Station that tangled service in the days that followed.