Witnesses said he was standing on a platform at a Queens subway station when a woman shoved him on to the tracks.
Without it the windows are blown outwards - putting anyone outside, such as those standing on a platform, at risk from flying glass.
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Those standing on a platform in Leeds or Manchester will have to wait 21 years for a high speed train to arrive, and that's if it's on schedule.
There's the young city worker, with his tie always at half-mast as if to emphasise how "dreadfully busy" he is, even though he's been standing on the platform for at least 15 minutes.
One reason why Amtrak is so lousy is its penchant for stopping its trains at every city on its route that has an influential politician just in case he (or one of his voters) happens to be standing on the platform.
With Google Now, a person standing on a train platform may receive information about when a specific train is arriving and if there are delays.
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When John Major resigned the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1995, inviting detractors to "put up or shut up", John Redwood challenged him, standing on a Eurosceptic platform.
And if it's true that fame is changing, and celebrity is being democratized in the 21st century, maybe we all are going to one day wind up on a platform, standing high above a pool.
"As I was standing on that train platform, I thought, 'Oh, if she goes backward in time and he goes forward, then I always know what to write about because I'm always catching up, '" Brown recalls.
But yet you can see them standing here on the train platform.
The DUP candidate is standing on an anti-agreement platform.
The final lines highlight the dangers of standing on the edge of the rail platform and running across tracks.
Dressed in a shiny grey suit and tie and carrying a Baywatch-style float, Mr Hasselhoff took to the platform to ringing applause and a standing ovation.
Nevertheless, he is standing on a law-and-order platform: he has gathered support by attacking a government proposal to cut the maximum prison sentence for serious crimes from 30 to 20 years, an ill-timed measure given Sao Paulo's rising murder rate.
The pontiff broke with another tradition by refusing to use a platform to elevate himself above the cardinals standing with him as he was introduced to the world as Pope Francis.
The pontiff also broke with another tradition by refusing to use a platform to elevate himself above the cardinals standing with him as he was introduced to the world as Pope Francis.
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She is standing, unsurprisingly, on an anti-corruption platform.
It reminded me of standing at the top of a 10-meter diving platform, staring at the water 30 feet below.
His vision has modernized and globalized our legacy news brand, enhanced CNN's journalistic standing, positioned it at the forefront of multi-platform branded news content and challenged the organization to think bigger, reach further and do better.
We are standing at the very beginning where mobile phones will become the biggest platform in the world.
Will these companies, with long-standing relationships with PlayStation, release their games, only to have the platform on which they were developed suddenly become obsolete?
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We have a long standing security partnership with BlackBerry and this gives us confidence that the BlackBerry 10 platform is likely to represent a viable solution for UK Government.
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