»A Subway Tale

This man tells a tale of his humble heroics:

“I was waiting for the C to go downtown to a reading,” he said from his office on West 30th Street, where he works as a proofreader. “I’m an actor — shocker.”

He said most everyone seems to be an aspiring actor nowadays, but in this case, it is a critical point to the story: Mr. Lindsey currently appears in an Off-Broadway show called “Kasper Hauser,” in a role that requires him to repeatedly lift a character who cannot walk.

[ ... dramatic rescue as train approaches ... ]

Then I sort of freaked out, and I was nervous and shaky. These five women opened their purses and gave me Handi-Wipes. I was covered in blood and dirt from the subway tracks. One woman was a nurse, and said, ‘Don’t have caffeine or cigarettes for an hour and a half,’ because of the adrenaline in my heart.”