2025-01-24
20 分钟Joseph Lynskey was waiting for the subway in Manhattan last month when a random act of violence transformed his life.
Hi, my name's Katie Rossman.
I am a reporter on the Metrodesk, and I help cover New York City.
When you're on a news desk at the New York Times,
you take shifts to cover holidays because the newspaper doesn't take a day off.
And on January 1st, I was on duty,
and I had hoped it would be a quiet day, but actually it was a very busy news day.
And one of the stories was
that somebody had been pushed in the path of a train at a subway station in Manhattan.
When you hear that somebody has been pushed in front of a train, you assume,
or I assumed, that it would be a story about somebody who had been killed.
But we heard that the guy survived.
He lived through an urban nightmare.
I had been assigned to reach out and try to get in touch with members of the victim's family.
And as I went through that process,
I was thinking more
and more about how unusual it must be
for someone to survive being pushed in front of an oncoming train.
And so I thought, should this man make a recovery, that is a story I would like to do,
to talk to someone and say, how did you survive the unsurvivable.
It turns out this person's name is Joe Linsky.