Man barricades himself inside conductor’s cab on NYC train

A man barricaded himself inside the conductor’s cab of a Manhattan train Wednesday morning — shutting down service on the line for over an hour, police and officials said.

The standoff aboard the J train at the Broad Street station kicked off three incidents in the span of about four hours that delayed subway service in two boroughs, officials said. It began just after 9 a.m., when the man, who was described by officials as mentally ill, locked himself in the operator’s booth while wielding a wooden paddle, according to police.