Exclusive | Subway security guards go viral for their reaction to seeing a commuter

They put the sweet in subway security.A pair of popular security guards at the Union Square subway station got a shout-out on social media after a video of their heartwarming reaction to seeing a commuter after her two-day absence went viral.“Derrick and Danny, make my day every single morning.

And I haven’t been there the past two mornings, let’s see how they react,” Dana Joy Seigelstein said in the clip, which garnered over 100,000 views on the Instagram handle New Yorkers.Seigelstein captures the moment Danny Perez and Derrick Blocker spot her — and they’re both beaming, with Derrick dancing and shouting, “She’s here!” and Danny giving her the quintessential excited New York greeting of “Yoooo!”“That is typically how I’m greeted, but to have it on camera was spectacular,” Seigelstein, 27, told The Post.Seigelstein, who lives in the East Village, uses the Union Square subway station to get to the Midtown office of SiriusXM, where she works as an account executive.

She met the duo, who are employed by Allied Universal and stand at the 14th Street and 4th Avenue entrance, six months ago, and they became fast friends.“They are the light of my life,” Seigelstein gushed.“We’re in a group chat called the Triple Ds [for Dana, Danny and Derrick].We text about literally anything, like what they’re eating for lunch.

If I’m not there one day, they’ll check in on me.If I’m running late, I’ll text them.”Her video came about after she decided to walk to work for two days straight due to the nice weather.

“It’s like a catch-22 because I love walking to work but then I don’t get to see them,” she said.“I was like, ‘I just feel like they’re gonna have a good reaction, let me just record it.'”The Westfield, NJ native said the pair — who wake up at 3:30 every morning for their 6:00 a.m.

to 2:00 p.m.shift — are “like celebrities” at the station and always make it a point to greet commuters and wish them a g...