WEST HARLEM — A blind man and his seeing-eye dog survived a brush with death when they fell into West Harlem's 125th Street station and a uptown A train passed over them, officials said.
The man, Cecil Williams, 60, was on his way to a dental appointment with his nearly 11-year-old black Labrador, Orlando, when he fainted on the platform and fell onto the tracks of the station near Saint Nicholas Avenue about 9:30 a.m., he told the Associated Press in an interview.
"He tried to hold me up," Williams told the news service. "The dog saved my life."
He was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital with minor head injuries, the FDNY said.
Orlando wasn't injured in the fall, an NYPD spokesman said.
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