NYC commuter ‘won’t ride subway after 7 p.m.’ anymore after being shoved onto tracks by ‘maniac’

A bruised and battered Huge Apple straphanger recalled to The Submit on Tuesday how a maniac “got here out of nowhere” and shoved him onto Union Sq. subway tracks, prompting good Samaritans to assist save him.

“Scary sh-t, man,” mentioned the 25-year-old rattled commuter, who works in industrial actual property. “I gained’t be taking the subway after 7 p.m. once more.

“Actually, I by no means thought this could occur to me. I’ve heard of these things occurring, however I didn’t assume it might be me.”

The sufferer, who requested to not be recognized, mentioned he was carrying AirPods and searching down at his cellphone whereas standing on the No. 6 practice platform on the 14th Road-Union Sq. station round 9:30 p.m. Monday when the assault occurred.

He was transferring from the No. 4 practice after leaving his job when he was abruptly pushed onto the tracks within the unprovoked assault, cops mentioned.

Surveillance video confirmed the person being shoved from behind, law-enforcement sources mentioned.

“I received pushed from behind. I hit my head on the tracks,” the sufferer instructed The Submit. “Fortunately, I used to be capable of stand up alone. The man had seen me. He got here out of nowhere and shoved me from behind.”

The sufferer was transferring from the No. 4 practice after leaving his job when he was abruptly pushed onto the tracks within the unprovoked assault.

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Happily, no trains have been coming into the station, and a pair of excellent Samaritans helped him again up onto the platform — leaving him shaken and bloodied, however secure.

The sufferer mentioned one of many subway heroes was a nurse who gave him gauze for the bleeding.

His attacker fled the station and stays on the free.

The sufferer — who got here to town from California in 2019 — mentioned he was handled at Bellevue Hospital, the place he required 18 stitches to shut the gash on his head and 4 stitches for a minimize on his arm.

Requested what he would say to Mayor Eric Adams concerning the present state of the crime-plagued Apple, the person replied, “I'd say that I like town, however the truth that this man continues to be on the streets is fairly pathetic.”

The sufferer added that he would describe himself as “a pro-subway man.

“I used to be driving with my masks on in 2020,” the straphanger mentioned.

He mentioned he’ll be calling for an Uber sooner or later, however typically, “I’m extra vigilant now after the shove.

“I’m going to have my head on a swivel,” the man mentioned.