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When Isla Agir’s glasses were knocked from her hands and onto the southbound No. 6 line track at 14th Street-Union Square last Thursday morning, she wasn’t sure she would be reunited with them.

“It’s going to cost me, if I buy here, $8,000,” Agir said of her Italian-made Lombardo frames. “They have the thinner lenses with the three effects and the blue vision, so it was not my intent for them to fall.”

By that same night, the 57-year-old Manhattan woman had the glasses back in her possession after a crew of MTA workers used a pole with a “grabber” claw

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