And this just keeps happening.

A man was fatally struck by an L train last night in Brooklyn. According to police, the incident happened around 9:15 p.m. at the DeKalb Avenue station near Wyckoff Avenue, on the northbound L train tracks. The man was found about 200 feet past the station on the tracks, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Neither police nor FDNY could confirm how the man ended up so far away from the station. Last month, an intoxicated man who had crawled under the platform to “sleep it off” had his leg amputated after he was struck by a train in Queens. This is the seventh subway fatality of the year so far.
At least one person claimed the victim had jumped in front of the train, which the NYPD could not confirm. They took the Vine below of the scene last night.

Via DNA:

The unidentified victim was struck by the Canarsie-bound train about 7:40 a.m. in the station at Bedford Avenue and North Seventh Street, an FDNY spokesman said.

“I was on the train and when it stopped the doors didn’t open and the conductor guy said somebody was on the tracks,” said Kirk Anderson, a construction worker who was on his way to work. “The people outside on the platform were saying that somebody jumped.”

The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he’s expected to recover, cops said.

Police said it appears the man jumped into the path of the oncoming train, but they are still investigating the incident.

“I’ve heard about this happening, but it has never happened with me before,” Anderson added. “It’s very crazy and it’s happening a lot lately.”

More images at Friends of McGorlick Park Facebook page.

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A treasured Brooklyn monument celebrating residents who fought in the Civil War was vandalized yesterday with buckets of paint.

The Greenpoint Monitor Statue — which depicts a man working on the USS Monitor, the legendary ironclad battleship — was desecrated with white paint over the head, shoulders and chest.

The bold vandal went so far as to scribble the initials “JJ” in the paint near the bottom of the McGolrick Park statue, which was erected in 1938.

“The neighborhood has a big historic connection to the Monitor because it was built in Greenpoint and stationed in Greenpoint,” said Phil DePaolo, a community activist. “It was big slap in the face to the community.”

As Gothamist points out the 150th anniversary of the sinking of the USS Monitor is this Saturday.