Man randomly shoved onto NYC subway tracks in yet another transit attack, suspect still at large

A man was pushed onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station Friday in an apparently unprovoked attack, according to law enforcement sources and transit workers.

The 32-year-old victim was left stunned — but wasn’t hit by a train after the shove onto the L train tracks at the Myrtle and Wyckoff Avenue station just before 3:30 p.m., an MTA security worker said.

“He was just in shock that it happened to him,” said the worker, who had spoken with the victim.

“It’s not like he had a confrontation with the person or they were arguing or anything. It was just a random shove. He just got shoved into the tracks — that’s what he said. This guy pushed him into the tracks.”

The worker had just started his shift when someone ran upstairs yelling “someone got pushed,” he said.

He ran downstairs and found the victim had injured his shoulder and couldn’t be helped back onto the platform, he said.

Police are still looking for the subway shover.
The attack took place at the Myrtle and Wyckoff Avenue station just before 3:30 p.m.
Wayne Carrington

The victim allegedly walked up the steps at the edge of the platform. The assailant is still at large and cops were seen searching L trains arriving at the station early Friday evening.

“Every station is crazy, full of a bunch of lunatics and the mentally ill,” the worker lamented.

The incident shook straphangers as they waited for the train during the Friday evening commute.

“I think it’s crazy,” said Tasha Castro, 24, a preschool assistant teacher. “I feel like New York is getting crazier by the day.”

It’s just the latest attack amid soaring violence in the Big Apple’s underground, and it follows a similar incident in The Bronx just five days ago.

Assailant Miguel Ramirez, 35, is facing attempted murder and other charges for shoving a 26-year-old man onto the 6 train tracks at the East 149th Street Station, police said.

Good Samaritans pulled the victim up to safety.

And in Queens, 48-year-old construction worker Heriberto Quintana fell onto the tracks Monday during a scuffle over a dropped phone and was hit by an F train at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue.

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