Helen Chen, a 22-year-old intern at the Lazard investment bank in New York City, passed away on Tuesday night after collapsing under a subway train at Grand Central Station at 10.40 p.m.
The Instagram account, Liquidity first reported the tragedy, and Lazard later confirmed it. Here are more details about Helen Chen in this article below.
Lazard expressed their shock at Chen’s passing and stated It was unfathomable to lose someone so young. Her family, friends, and coworkers at Lazard are in their prayers.
RIP: Who Is 22- Years-Old Helen Chen?
According to The New York Post, Helen Chen is an intern who worked in Lazard’s Rockefeller Center office.
She is assumed to have passed out while returning from a Mets game with other interns. It’s believed that Lazard organized attendance at the game as a part of the intern program.
She was an NYU undergraduate student as per her Linkedin profile.
Helen was to receive her business degree from the Stern School of Business the following year.
The Intern is a Californian who is from Burbank. She was a Providence High School student.
Lazard Intern Helen Chen Death and Obituary
A train headed for Queens struck a woman at Grand Central Station. Right away, this raised tension in the station.
According to the police, the train driver did their best to stop in time but still struck the woman.
Around 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Helen Chen fell onto the tracks of Grand Central Station as a train was approaching from southbound 7.
Lazard, an investment bank, confirmed in a statement to The Post that Chen worked at its New York office in Rockefeller Center while she was an intern there.
After her death news, Lazard, Helen’s friends, and numerous online sources paid tribute to the intern and send condolences to the Chen family.
NYC Subway Train Collision Linked to Death
The tragic incident of Helen Chen happened just one month after Daniel Enriquez, a former employee of Goldman Sachs was killed.
Daniel, who worked in the bank’s Global Investment Research Division, was killed while attempting to get food on a Manhattan-bound Q metro.
After the untimely demise of Helen from a train collision, it has already raised concerns about the bank’s policies regarding paid late-night travel for interns.
Some have even suggested that the bank could have covered the cost of Chen’s Uber ride home from what appears to have been a company event.
Transit officials devised a plan to erect safety barriers in three of the city’s subway stations at the beginning of this year to reduce the deaths on the tracks.