A Bronx woman who suffered severe brain damage after falling on a landing in a subway station was awarded $16 million by a jury last week.

Maria Alcantara, a 69-year-old native of the Dominican Republic and mother of two, fell on a landing in the Graham Ave. subway stop in Brooklyn on Dec. 12, 2008. She was leaving from a job at a packing plant where she had worked for 18 years. She suffered a broken hip and bleeding in her brain, and was hospitalized for several days.