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#MTA worker honored for spotting man with gun on subway

#MTA worker honored for spotting man with gun on subway

A veteran MTA cleaner was hailed as a “hero” after alerting cops to an out-of-state straphanger with a gun while she cleaned a Lower Manhattan train platform.

Ivette Leonetti, 54, of Brooklyn, was mopping the platform at World Trade Center/Cortlandt Street station on Monday when she noticed the man sitting on the platform bench had a gun in his waistband.

Leonetti, an MTA cleaner for almost 23 years, kept calm and kept mopping as she passed the man, a South Carolinian she described as “nonchalant” and “polite.”

“I kept on going as normal and just did my job until I got a chance to call it in and I called it in,” said Leonetti, an MTA cleaner for almost 23 years.

“I said, ‘Oh, you smell good,’ and he said, ‘Thank you.’ I kept continued walking until had a space to just go downstairs. I did my call and then I came back upstairs and kept on moving,” she said.

MTA cleaner Ivetta Leonetti alerted NYPD when she noticed a man sitting on the platform bench had a gun in his waistband.
MTA cleaner Ivetta Leonetti alerted NYPD when she noticed a man sitting on the platform bench had a gun in his waistband.
William Farrington

“We got a police response immediately,” said MTA Chief Safety Officer Pat Warren. “Nobody should be carrying a weapon in the city and particularly in the subway system.”

Cops booked David Taylor, 36, of Seneca, South Carolina, shortly after 7 a.m. on charges of criminal possession of a firearm, NYPD said.

MTA cleaner Ivetta Leonetti kept mopping as she passed the man with the gun, describing him as "nonchalant" and "polite."
MTA cleaner Ivetta Leonetti kept mopping as she passed the man with the gun, describing him as “nonchalant” and “polite.”
William Farrington

Leonetti, the mother of two teenagers, said her heroics were all in a day’s work.

“I always look around, see what’s going on in the station,” she said.

“I’m used to all of this. I just know when to stay away and I know when to approach it … I guess that’s the street smart in me.”

MTA cleaner Ivetta Leonetti and MTA Chief Safety Officer Pat Warren (right)
MTA cleaner Ivetta Leonetti with MTA Chief Safety Officer Pat Warren.
William Farrington

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