A Queens woman pushed onto the subway tracks in Tribeca by a deranged attacker had to wait a month for surgery to repair her injuries — and now refuses to ride the rails.
“I have very little sleep,” victim Wan Xu told The Post through a Mandarin interpreter.
The Corona resident is now so afraid of riding the subway that she “will not consider any jobs that require her to take public transportation,” she said.
Xu, 34, was heading home from her job at a foot massage salon at about 11 p.m. when a stranger in a dirty red sweatshirt suddenly rammed her from behind without saying a word, sending her flying onto the tracks at the Chambers Street 1/2/3 station Aug. 29.
Xu quickly realized she couldn’t stand due to her fractured leg.
Her heart raced as she frantically checked to make sure the train wasn’t bearing down on her.
Luckily, a group of fellow straphangers — Xu can’t recall how many — rushed to her aid and pulled her back onto the platform, law enforcement sources said.
“There were a lot of people next to me and they pulled me out,” Xu said, adding she had to “endure the excruciating pain” as she was lifted off the tracks.
Her unhinged attacker disappeared into the wind.
The shellshocked straphanger was brought to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where doctors warned she’d need surgery to reset the bone in her fractured left leg.
But the recent Chinese immigrant, a married mom of one who has no health insurance, was unable to get the procedure until Sept. 29.
Now the nonprofit Chinatown Mural Project has set up a GoFundMe to help pay for her treatment and an expected three months of rehab.
“The fundraiser is to help her through this difficult time.” said community activist Karlin Chan, head of the group.
Xu’s alleged attacker, Samuel Junker, 41, was arrested two days after the harrowing incident and charged with felony assault in connection to the random attack.
He remains behind bars with no bail at Rikers Island.
