LIRR - Watch the gap, please

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Newsday - New York / March 2, 2007

Boy falls through LIRR gap

4-year-old plunges through 8-inch space in Westbury station as family exits train; it's 20th fall this year

Delmy Alvarado gripped a suitcase in one hand and her 4-year-old in another as she stepped off a train at the Long Island Rail Road station in Westbury.

Then, she said, in the blink of an eye, her son plunged to the tracks.

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