MTA Hero uses grabbing stick to pull Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg's phone off tracks

Wednesday, December 21, 2022
This week's MTA Hero helped out one of our own!

Track inspector Richard Brea got a call that someone dropped their phone onto the tracks on the 2 line at 14th Street.
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That someone was Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg.



Brea used a grabbing stick to pick the phone up off the tracks.

The 20-year veteran of the MTA says he has never had a boring day on the job.
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