Homeless Man Killed in Subway Fire Was Author, Artist
The victim found dead inside an abandoned room of a New York City subway station after a fire there turned out to be a homeless man who had once written a book about living in the subways.
Anthony Horton, 43, was a longtime vagrant who made his living selling things people threw out in the trash, the Daily News first reported. After growing up in foster care and briefly staying in shelters, Horton ultimately set up his home underground in the subway tunnels of New York City.
"He described it as peaceful down there, and quiet," Youme Nguyen Ly, the now-Florida-based artist who co-authored the book with Horton, told NBC New York.
Horton had been writing stories and sketching pictures about his decades-long subway experiences when he met Ly on the subway in 2004 and became friends with her.
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