A driver heading home from her jewelry shop-job, a Metropolitan Museum of Art curator taking the train home, and a fellow train commuter with a long career in finance were among those killed when a commuter train hit an SUV stopped on the tracks at a suburban rail crossing. A look at the victims, whose employers and friends have identified them as among the dead:
ELLEN BRODY
Ellen Brody, the SUV’s driver, worked at a suburban jewelry store, helped found a student news network in her town and was involved in almost everything at her synagogue, friends and her rabbi said.
And the 49-year-old mother of three was mindful of safety, said Paul Feiner, a longtime friend and the town supervisor in Greenburgh, a community near the crash site.
She was not “somebody who was careless — not risky when it came to her safety or others,” he said.
Brody and her husband, author and journalist Alan Brody, had three daughters in their teens and 20s. They’ve been active in Chabad of the Rivertowns throughout the synagogue’s 12 years, where she was “definitely the connector” who helped create camaraderie, Rabbi Benjy Silverman said.
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ADITYA TOMAR
Aditya Tomar of Danbury, Connecticut,
He worked in asset management at JPMorgan. He was born in India, and was married, with no children.
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Jennifer Peltz and Verena Dobnik contributed.
