by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman
October 15, 2024
Luis Jimenez is a longtime member of the Timeless Torches dance troupe.
An MTA bus driver who went viral for serving to somewhat woman wandering alone via New York is moving into a distinct highlight.
The driving force, Luis Jimenez, is a member of the Timeless Torches dance troupe. The squad performs for the New York Liberty, most lately on the group’s WNBA Finals video games. Jimenez rocked his uniform, a black Torches jersey with matching observe pants, in the course of the Torches’ Oct. 13 efficiency on the Barclays Heart in Brooklyn.
The 60-year-old bus driver couldn’t cease the sensation throughout his efficiency in Recreation 2 of the WNBA finals, wherein the Liberty defeated the Minnesota Lynx. Jimenez has danced with the troupe for over a decade. He referred to as the interest a “fountain of youth” that helps him keep agile for his predominant job.
“It retains your power, the whole lot it’s a must to deliver,” Jimenez instructed the New York Put up. “Serving to folks out driving the bus is the perfect factor on this planet. I assist the aged with the place they gotta go, give particular have to them.”
In September, whereas working his day job, Jimenez stopped his metropolis bus after noticing a 5-year-old woman strolling via higher Manhattan alone.
Earlier than intervening, Jimenez urged one in every of his passengers to name the authorities. For town worker, it was a no brainer to assist the kid, particularly when she went into the road.
“My intuition as a father got here on as a result of if I see a child on the street in want of assist, I’d need any individual to assist one in every of my kids or one in every of my grandkids,” Jimenez defined to ABC7.
After bringing her onto the bus, Jimenez and the passengers waited till the police got here. She had been reported lacking by her college, 10 blocks from the place Jimenez discovered her. Police later reunited the woman along with her household.
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