The meeting between an MTA bus driver and a little girl he saved who was lost on the street in Harlem last month was very moving.
The 5-year-old’s fish had just died, so she missed school to get a new one.
“Luis, you saved my life from the bad guys in New York City. Thank you,” said 5-year-old Addy Gonzalez.
Adaline, whose nickname is “Addy” Gonzalez, was reunited with Luis Jimenez, an MTA bus driver who found the 5-year-old walking alone on a Harlem path last month and saved her.
The 60-year-old was almost done with his morning shift on the crosstown M116 when he saw the 5-year-old girl on the curb near 106th Street and Broadway. She looked like she was by herself.
Jimenez says he watched the girl for about a block before telling a rider to call the police. He then pulled over and called his boss. Other people on the bus helped him get the girl on board.
The police finally show up and get the girl back to her family safely.
“It made me feel so good, my heart was pumping, I could not wait to meet her and her parents because something like that should be celebrated, she was able to get home,” he said.
Gonzalez got out of school without permission and said she was looking for a new fish because her old one had died.
“Well, we were really scared. We were confused. “We were scared because that was our little girl,” Gonzalez’s mother Julissa said.
“We are not surprised. González’s dad Cesar said, “She is always been very determined to do what she wants.”
When they got back together, Jimenez made sure Gonzalez got a new fish.
“I chose the name Luis for my new fish.” “I was thrilled and pleased, and everything was great,” Gonzalez said.
Jimenez said that the day he found Gonzalez, he was thinking about calling in sick, and that the small choice to go to work had a huge effect.
“It is lovely to meet Luis. He is also a very attractive guy. Thank God. Thank him. Cezar Gonzalez said, “You know, she is here with us today.”
Gonzalez also gave Jimenez a gift: a Jets cap that said “Addy’s Hero.”
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