10-Year-Old Boy Falls Onto Subway Tracks While Playing Video Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukEFBly4UKE

[Webmaster - I guess this means we need the Nanny State to intervene and pass legislation banning "gaming while walking" and "texting while walking" (ie. - the "fountain lady").]

Real-Time Security Cameras Link NYC Subway Hubs
Residents More Than Willing To Look Other Way On Privacy

NYC Subway Cameras (Photo/Stephen Chernin/AP)

From pvictorwins

NEW YORK (CBS 2/1010 WINS) — As many as 500 cameras have been placed in nearly every corner of three of the busiest transit hubs in New York City – in the stairwells and on the platform.

All of them are keeping a close watch on who and what’s going in and out of our subways.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t waste time talking about the subways, “which we know terrorists regard as what they would call high value targets.”

LISTEN: 1010 WINS’ Reporter Stan Brooks gets details from Bloomberg on the new system

Bloomberg, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Jay Walder announced the city’s newest security initiative on Monday.

Hundreds of MTA subway security cameras placed in Grand Central, Penn Station and Times Square are now directly piped into the NYPD’s security operation center, allowing police eyes in places where they didn’t have them before...

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Rail Cops Go Great Guns

Hit city subways after Russia terror

Post photos: G.N. Miller

ON THE M16 LINE: Members of the NYPD's elite Hercules unit patrol a subway car at Grand Central Terminal and stand watch at the 51st Street station yesterday in response to the Moscow attacks.

Photos: Armed officers police subways

Stand clear of the submachine guns.

In an unusual move, a heavily armed NYPD security battalion with enough firepower to wipe out Downtown Brooklyn descended onto the city's subway trains yesterday in response to suicide bombings in Russia that killed dozens of passengers in Moscow's subway.

Bleary-eyed New Yorkers began their work weeks with a morning rush hour that featured city cops in full military gear, including helmets, goggles, body armor, sidearms and M16 assault rifles.

The underground arsenal startled sleepy straphangers, many of whom wondered whether the extra security was overkill.

"I think it's excessive," said Holly Celentang, 26, a rider from Queens. "It's Easter this week, and you have families with young kids on the subway, and I'm sure cops with machine guns would scare them.

"I feel there should have been a bit more of a thought process before they did this. We can't lose our heads over something that happened in another country and make New York City look like we are at war."...

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