When Ramiro Ocasio left work on Friday, he was thinking about what he was going to do over the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, and whether or not his beloved New England Patriots would be able to overcome the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday to get to the Super Bowl.

The last thing on the 33-year-old Kirkland & Ellis records assistant’s mind was that he’d have to risk life and limb in order to save an elderly man from being the latest victim in a shocking string of subway fatalities in New York City.