A Bronx woman says a creepy ad for the Showtime serial killer TV series “Dexter” — painted on Grand Central Terminal stairs — spooked her so much that she tumbled down the steps and broke her ankle.
Ajanaffy Njewadda and husband Sheik Ahmad Tejan Wadda are suing the MTA, Showtime and the city over the sinister images that allegedly caused her spill on June 20 last year.
Njewadda claims in her Bronx Supreme Court lawsuit that she had gotten separated from her husband when they got off a subway and was shocked by a publicity image of “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall painted over an entire staircase.
The Showtime drama casts Hall as a mild-mannered crime scene investigator who carries out gruesome executions of criminals who unjustly beat the system.
The popular TV vigilante usually wraps his victims in plastic.
The photograph “extending the full length of the steps from the top of the platform to the bottom, depicted a shocking and menacing face of a Caucasian man [‘Dexter’] exhibiting an expression of fear or shock and was covered, draped or enwrapped in cellophane/plastic wrap,” according to the lawsuit.
“That sight of the photograph startled, shocked and overwhelmed plaintiff Njewadda, causing her to panic and become fearful, which fright and anxiety caused her to panic and lose her balance on the steps thereto resulting in her falling and down the steps to the bottom thereof.”
The MTA declined comment.