For Transit Workers, a Normal Tuesday Until Bullets Began to Fly

A photograph shared on social media reveals Mr. Artis on the platform, shouting to riders to get on the R as rapidly as doable. Seeing a few of the injured heed his recommendation, he radioed the authorities to allow them to know that medical personnel needs to be dispatched to the subsequent station.

After that R left, Mr. Artis mentioned, he noticed bullet casings within the automobile the place, the authorities say, Mr. James opened hearth. Close to him on the platform was a person who had been shot within the knee. Mr. Artis watched as one other passenger eliminated his shirt to wrap it across the wound.

All through all of it, Ms. Haynes, who has been a transit employee for under about 17 months, knew the crew needed to stay beneath management.

“You having a peaceful demeanor helps your passengers keep calm, which helps them get out safely,” she mentioned.

Outdoors the station, Parla Mejia was driving a B37 bus, which travels a route from Fort Hamilton in southwest Brooklyn to the Barclays Heart. As she neared the thirty sixth Road station, she noticed folks streaming up the steps. As they crowded onto the bus, she mentioned, all she understood was that the practice they’d been on was out of service.

It was not till a number of blocks later, close to the twenty fifth Road station, that she discovered of the taking pictures.

“I noticed loads of college students — youngsters, possibly about 20 or 30 of them, simply operating towards my bus,” mentioned Ms. Mejia, one other of the transit employees who was honored on Friday. “And there was a younger woman there, calling, ‘Run, let’s go, come on, come on, let’s go.’”