Slashed NYC subway conductor Alton Scott vows he’ll never go underground again: ‘That’s not for me anymore’
By Georgett Roberts, Tina Moore,
2024-03-02
The veteran MTA conductor whose neck was slashed when he stuck his head out of a train car in Brooklyn will never go back to work on the city’s subways after the gruesome random attack, he told The Post Saturday.
Alton Scott said he’s too upset about the Thursday morning incident — that left him needing 34 stitches to his neck — to return to the system.
“I don’t see myself going back on that train, that’s not for me anymore,” the 59-year-old said.
“I don’t see myself going back on that train, that’s not for me anymore,” the 59-year-old told The Post. TWU
“If I go back to work, I would not go on the train,” said Scott, who has worked in transit for 24 years.
“I’m too traumatized to do that. If I go back, they’ll have to find something else for me to do.”
Scott said he hadn’t noticed anyone suspicious and had no idea he was about to be attacked while conducting an A train.
Scott’s cut was deep and “he was stopping the blood from flowing.” Georgett Roberts/NY Post
“All I heard was a hard thump on my neck,” he recalled. “I put my hand right on my neck and in a couple of seconds when I removed it, my hand was filled with blood.
“I kept my hand right there and that’s when I called over the PA system. I said, ‘This is the conductor. I have been stabbed. I need help. I need help,” he added.
The unprovoked incident happened at the Rockaway Avenue A/C station in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 4 a.m. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post
A doctor who was on the train came to his aid and put pressure on the wound with a mask, he recalled.
The cut was deep and “he was stopping the blood from flowing.”
“I thought I was going to die, period,” Scott said.
“If I go back to work, I would not go on the train,” said Scott, who has worked in transit for 24 years. BRIGITTE STELZER Scott said he hadn’t noticed anyone suspicious and had no idea he was about to be attacked while conducting an A train. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post
A short time later he asked the doctor how he was and the doctor reassured him he was going to survive.
“The blade didn’t hit his artery,” he said. “That’s when I breathed a sigh of relief.”
He has since spoken to the doctor.
“I called him and I said, ‘Thank you so much,'” Scott recalled. “He said it’s OK. I said someday we will meet if possible.”
Scott wants the person who stabbed him to be arrested and jailed for as long as possible. Police said there had been no arrest as of Saturday afternoon.
“When you catch somebody you have to give them seven years,” he said, noting the minimum advertised penalty for assaulting a train crew member. ”The law we got now at least apply them, make them work.”
But he said he’d like to see his attacker serve even more time.
“I’d like to see it stiffer,” he said. “So somebody knows they are not supposed to do this to anybody again or even think about doing it.”
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The MTA doesn’t get enough credit for there hard work, not only do they provide service to the working class people commuting to work on a daily basis, they also are put in danger at the hands of angry, mentally ill homeless people that prey upon them. The fact that the bus d few rivers, train operators, conductors, and various other MTA workers worked every day during the pandemic, were on the front lines, caught the Covid more than once, passed it to their families, and many died from the virus right before retirement, with no acknowledgment from the mayor or the governor just shows how insignificant they are made to feel, and I for hope that this changes in the future, the MTA workers life has value and they need increased protection
Lisa Mckenny
03-03
Sadly our government doesn’t care about our children and seniors. This is the worst administration ever and I will be voting against all of them in November…
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