Toast to subway heroes
- Last Updated: 8:34 AM, December 19, 2012
- Posted: 2:03 AM, December 19, 2012
They’ll drink to their heroism.
Two subway riders — total strangers — who rescued a man from an oncoming 5 train reunited yesterday, and said they’ll soon share some wine to toast their good deed.
Doreen Winkler, 31, and Victor Samuel, 43, teamed up to get Jack Simmons off the tracks at the Bowling Green station Dec. 6.
“We both feel like it was a movie,” said Winkler, a Brooklyn resident who owns Diamond Sommelier Services.
“We should go and have wine,” she said to Samuel, who agreed.
Both received city proclamations yesterday.
Samuel jumped down on the tracks and nudged Simmons toward the platform.
Winkler helped pull both men up as the train arrived.
“I remember very vividly I became frightened [when I saw the train],” said Samuel, who was struggling to get onto the platform.
