A man was shoved onto the subway tracks by a complete stranger early Friday in Manhattan — and would’ve been smashed by an oncoming train if it weren’t for a group of quick-thinking commuters, witnesses and police said.
Edwin Pinez, 55, was standing on the northbound “6” train platform at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station around 7:45 a.m. when the unhinged attacker walked up to him and pushed him, police said.
Fellow straphangers sprung into action and pulled him off the tracks while others ran down the platform to stop a train speeding into the station, a witness said.
“I just got there when I saw a man on the tracks. It was terrifying,” said the witness, who sprinted down the platform and started waving his hands at the conductor to get him to stop.
Miraculously, the train was stopped just in time and the man was safely removed from the tracks and taken to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan hospital with a busted and bloodied lip.
“I’m glad I’m alive,” Pinez, 55, told The Post as he was leaving the hospital, en-route to another location to undergo surgery on the injury.
“I’m grateful for the people that helped me,” said Pinez. “A lot of nice people.”
The suspect remains on the loose. Police did not immediately provide a description of the attacker but the witness said, “it was a man with a pink backpack.”
“I just wonder why he did it. It seemed random,” Pinez said.