Definitely, Definitely — Jolly Good Fellow And All That
Wesley Autrey, the man who proved once and for all just how chicken you actually are, was feted by the Mayor on Friday and celebrated on television:
Posted: January 8th, 2007 | Filed under: Huzzah!Subway superman Wesley Autrey collected a medal from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as the courageous construction worker rode an express train from hometown hero to national icon.
At City Hall, the Harlem man was awarded the Bronze Medal, the city’s top honor for civic achievement, for diving onto the subway tracks to save a stranger.
Past medal recipients have included Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Willie Mays.
Autrey, 50, “is a great man — a man who makes us all proud to be New Yorkers,” the mayor said.
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Elliot “Lee” Sander, the new executive director of the MTA, gave him a year’s worth of unlimited MetroCards, lauding his “death-defying act of bravery.”
And a Disney representative gave him and his family an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World.
It was another whirlwind day for the newly minted celeb, who appeared on CBS’s “Early Show,” David Letterman’s “Late Show,” and accepted a $10,000 check from Donald Trump.
“I’m going to enjoy my little 15 minutes of fame,” he remarked after the “Late Show” taping.