Crumbling wall causes subway derailment in Brooklyn

  • Passengers angry after a train derailed at a Brooklyn subway station Saturday
  • A crumbling wall caused a subway derailment on 86th Street subway station
  • The wall caused a southbound R train to derail just before 5:30am Sunday
  • 30 passengers were on board when the last of the 10-car train struck the debris 

Passengers were left annoyed and angry after a train derailed at a Brooklyn subway station Saturday.

The debris falling from the wall of the 86th Street subway station in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn forced passengers to be evacuated.

A southbound R train was derailed just before 5:30 am on Sunday and the station was closed following the incident, authorities confirmed. 

Pictured here is the debris falling from the wall of the 86th Street subway station in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, which caused a subway to derail

Around 30 passengers were on board when the last of the 10-car train struck the debris, angering commuters. 

‘What are you gonna do? I guess I gotta get the bus? I’m a little upset, but I guess that’s what New Yorkers have to go through,’ said Staten Island resident Gary Wise, according to the New York Post.

Stella, a Bay Ridge resident who declined to give her last name, said ‘there is no R train. No signs, nothing. I can’t tell where the shuttle is,’ she said. 

Around 30 passengers were on board when the last of the 10-car train struck the debris, angering commuters (stock photo of the subway station pictured here)

Around 30 passengers were on board when the last of the 10-car train struck the debris, angering commuters (stock photo of the subway station pictured here)

‘It’s not the first time. I’m going to Manhattan. I don’t know how I’m going to get there.’

MTA spokesman Jon Weinstein in a statement that the incident was caused by ‘debris from a wall becoming wedged between the rail and wheels’ of the train.

‘We expect to have full R service up and running later this morning.’

A southbound R train was derailed just before 5:30 am on Sunday and the station was closed following the incident

A southbound R train was derailed just before 5:30 am on Sunday and the station was closed following the incident

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