An Upper Manhattan subway station was cleared of used syringes and given a power wash in the wake of a Post exposé on the horde of heroin addicts who’ve turned it into an underground shooting gallery, the MTA said Tuesday.
Transit workers performed a “rigorous cleanup” that included removing “many needles” from the tracks in the 1 train station at 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue on Monday night, the MTA said.
The agency’s focus on the troubled station also came after two vagrants narrowly avoided death when they fell onto the tracks in separate incidents last week, according to an official familiar with the situation.
One man actually survived having a train roll over him while trying to retrieve a bag of food that a friend had tossed toward him from the opposite platform around 10:30 p.m. Friday.
The 68-year-old man lost his footing after climbing down from the platform, and squeezed into the trough between the tracks as the train bore down on him.
The second man was pulled from the tracks a little more than two hours later, with a needle stuck into his arm, the source said.
Riders on three dozen trains were delayed when power to the third rail was shut off so the men could be rescued.