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A pair of well-known security guards at the Union Square subway station received social media praise after a video of their heartwarming reaction to seeing a commuter after a two-day absence went viral.
“Derrick and Danny make my day every morning. And I have not been there in the last two mornings; let us see how they react,” Dana Joy Seigelstein said in the video, which has over 100,000 views on the Instagram account New Yorkers.
Seigelstein captures the moment Danny Perez and Derrick Blocker see her — and they are both beaming, with Derrick dancing and shouting, “She is here!” and Danny greeting her with the quintessential excited New York greeting, “Yoooo!”
“That is usually how I am greeted, but to have it captured on camera was incredible,” Seigelstein, 27, told The Post.
Seigelstein, who lives in the East Village, takes the Union Square subway to SiriusXM’s Midtown office, where she works as an account executive.
She met the duo, who work for Allied Universal and stand at the 14th Street and 4th Avenue entrance, six months ago and quickly became friends.
“They are the light of my life,” Seigelstein exclaimed.
“We are in a group chat called the Triple Ds [Dana, Danny, and Derrick]. We text about anything, including what they are eating for lunch. If I am not present one day, they will check in on me. If I am running late, I will text them.”
“It is like a catch-22 because I love walking to work but then I do not get to see them,” she complained. “I was like, ‘I just feel like they are going to have a good reaction, let me just record it.'”
The Westfield, NJ native said the pair, who get up at 3:30 a.m. every day for their 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. shift, are “like celebrities” at the station and always greet and wish commuters a good day.
“Even when they are tired, they keep bringing it. “It is very impressive,” she said.
Seigelstein is not alone in her admiration for Blocker, a Harlem native raised in the Bronx, and Perez, who was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
“Once, they helped me find my favorite sweater. “I will never forget them,” one commenter wrote.
“Every day I go to work with their positivity,” another added.
The mutual admiration did not surprise Seigelstein.
“When I am talking to them, tons of people are just passing, saying, ‘Morning Derrick’ ‘Morning Danny.'”
Even people who do not know the men said the “wholesome” video shows that “not everyone is a grumpy New Yorker.”
“This is the New York that natives know and love,” a visitor wrote.
“The one where people in your neighborhood know you and look out for each other.”
