Article updated: 12/28/2012 7:28 PM

Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective

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Commuters wait on the platform Friday as a train passes through the 40th St-Lowry St Station, where a man was killed after being pushed onto the subway tracks, in the Queens section of New York. Police are searching for a woman suspected of pushing the man and released surveillance video Friday of her running away from the station.

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As police sought on Friday to locate the unidentified woman who pushed a man into the path of an oncoming train, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged residents to keep the second fatal subway shove in the city this month in perspective. "It's a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York," Bloomberg told reporters following a police academy graduation.