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MTA workers save man from bridge plunge

A handshake and six transit workers kept a suicidal man from plunging to his death from the Williamsburg Bridge Thursday.

"He said he wanted to die because his wife just died and he wanted to join her," said Aikido Sticatto, a rookie train operator who came upon the man behaving erratically.

Three track workers and a three-man J train crew confronted the 48-year-old Ridgewood man after...

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