NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Yorker dubbed "Subway Superman" received the city's highest civic award on Thursday after pinning down a stricken stranger on subway tracks just enough to allow an oncoming train to run over the top of them.

Wesley Autrey, 50, jumped onto the subway tracks at a station in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood on Tuesday to help Cameron Hollopeter, who had suffered a seizure and fallen.

Autrey held down Hollopeter's convulsing body in the track bed as the train passed just centimeters above them. Both were uninjured, but Hollopeter, 20, remains in hospital undergoing tests to discover what caused his seizure.

Autrey, whose knitted cap was brushed with grease and dirt from the train passing overhead, played down his daring act as he accepted the Bronze Medallion -- for exceptional citizenship and outstanding achievement -- from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"You see somebody in distress, you help out," Autrey told a news conference, as he was flanked by his 4- and 6-year-old daughters, who had watched their father jump onto the subway tracks. "I was just in the right place at the right time."

While Bloomberg called Autrey a "true hero" and the New York Post newspaper dubbed him the "Subway Superman," the construction worker -- who went to work as normal after the incident -- said the real heroes were U.S. troops in Iraq.

Along with the civic award, Autrey was also given a year's worth of free rides on New York's subway and buses, then met with real-estate mogul Donald Trump, who gave him a $10,000 check, along with two other checks from undisclosed donors.

The Walt Disney Co. gave Autrey and his family a one-week fully paid trip to the Disney World theme park in Orlando, Fla, and tickets to the Broadway smash hit musical "The Lion King."

The New York Film Academy, where Hollopeter studies, said it had given Autrey $5,000 and offered scholarships to his daughters, while The New York Daily News reported Autrey had been offered a television show apartment make-over.

Autrey -- whose boss didn't believe his excuse for being late to work until he saw on the Internet what Autrey had done -- is also scheduled to appear on both "The Late Show With David Letterman" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

"Good things happen when you do good," Autrey said. "What better way to start a new year than saving a life?"

Autrey said he has visited Hollopeter in hospital and met the young man's father.

Previous recipients of New York's Bronze Medallion include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The last recipient was Housing Authority employee Felix Vasquez, who caught a baby thrown from a New York City burning building in 2005.

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Bob Cavallo, Buena Vista Music Group Chairman, said, "Obviously, we are very delighted with our recent success, especially since this is a challenging time for the record industry. We are fortunate that Disney Channel afforded us a platform to successfully launch High School Musical and Hannah Montana. And, of course, Rascal Flatts have continued their steady climb with the fourth multi-platinum album in a row."

The year's undisputed phenomenon was Walt Disney Records' soundtrack to the hit Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, which the R.I.A.A. has certified triple platinum. Released in January 2006, the High School Musical soundtrack broke multiple sales records on the Billboard charts. The Hot 100 chart included an unprecedented nine original songs from the soundtrack in one week, with six of those singles quickly certifying gold. That same record-breaking week the single "Breaking Free" catapulted from #86 to #4, making the largest jump in the 48-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. The song's #4 position also made it Walt Disney Records' highest-ranked Hot 100 song in the label's 50-year history. The gold single "Get'cha Head in the Game" also broke a 34-year-old Billboard record by soaring from #100 to #28 – the largest jump ever from the anchor position. In March 2006, High School Musical became the first television soundtrack in two decades to helm the Billboard Top 200.

Rascal Flatts' fourth album, Me And My Gang, was released by Lyric Street Records in April and opened with 722,000 units sold first week, making it the highest debut of 2006. Me and My Gang quickly certified triple platinum for sales of more than three million units and is the second best selling album of the year across all genres. In 2006, Rascal Flatts achieved its first crossover #1 hit when the single "What Hurts The Most" topped both the country and AC radio charts. The award-winning country music superstars recently became the first group in history to be named both the #1 Billboard Top 200 Artist of the Year and the #1 Country Artist of the Year by Billboard Magazine.

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The Buena Vista Music Group encompasses all of the Walt Disney Studio's recorded music and music publishing operations, including Hollywood Records, Walt Disney Records, Lyric Street Records and Walt Disney Music Publishing.