A grim subway reality: Corpses sometimes kept in break rooms

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NEW YORK - It's a largely overlooked but gory reality of the New York City subway system: When someone takes their life by jumping in front of a train, police need to find a place to put the mutilated body until a medical examiner truck arrives.

Transit workers say, that place is their break room or bathrooms.

"The subway isn't supposed to be New York City's temporary morgue," Transit Workers Union International President John Samuelsen said.

In one of the latest cases Wednesday, the body of a man found on a Manhattan subway train - after possibly dying of natural causes - was bagged and stashed in an out-of-service employee bathroom.

The MTA and the New York Police Department doesn't deny workers have occasionally encountered the body bags.

"The medical examiner and NYPD are committed to reducing our response times even further to ensure both the humane treatment of the deceased and the health of subway workers and straphangers," it said.

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