Overview
- A crowd of Knicks fans climbed onto the roof of a World Trade Center subway entrance to help an unconscious man on June 18, and bystanders carried him down to waiting EMS after he regained consciousness.
- Simone Kelly, a 24-year-old off‑duty volunteer EMT from New Jersey, has been widely credited with giving chest stimulation and administering Narcan after someone in the crowd tossed a kit up to rescuers.
- Accounts differ about the formal Narcan timeline, with Kelly and multiple reporters saying a bystander-supplied dose was used and the NYPD saying Narcan was recorded as given at 9:32 a.m., leaving the exact chain of administration unresolved.
- Video of the revival has gone viral and shows the revived man repeatedly trying to kiss or embrace Kelly, which prompted both praise for the rescuers and debate over the man's post‑revival behavior and accountability.
- The incident highlights how dense public celebrations can delay official emergency access, underscores the life-saving role of Narcan and trained volunteers, and may boost public discussion about carrying overdose reversal kits and crowd medical planning.