About 100 mourners filled the pews of Mt. Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem on Friday to remember Jordan Neely, who was choked to death on a subway train earlier this month.
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The somber service was punctuated by bouts of joyful music, as the pastor and a choir led the mourners in gospel songs. People danced in the pews and clapped along. Between speeches, four young men sang an a cappella rendition of “People Get Ready.” As they crooned about the “train to Jordan,” people in the pews clapped and cheered.
But the service was about more than mourning Neely’s death or celebrating his life. It was also a call to action. According to a witness, Neely, 30, was riding an uptown F train through Manhattan when he started shouting that he was hungry, thirsty and tired — and that he didn’t care if he went to jail or died. At some point after that, another straphanger took Neely to the ground and wrapped his arm around Neely’s neck, according to Juan Alberto Vazquez, the journalist who recorded part of the incident.
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