deranged woman who randomly pushed a brooklyn straphanger The victim said she had been arguing with herself outside the metro platform moments before the encounter on Sunday – and had tried to throw others in front of a train.
Steven Morales, 43, told The Post that he was walking on the Kosciuszko Street station platform in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 9 a.m. on his way home from East New York when he noticed a mentally unstable woman.
“I see that woman in the middle of the stage, where the benches are,” Morales said Monday. “His bags are there. And she’s just yelling and arguing over, I guess, hypotheticals. You know, something just happened.”
“I’m used to seeing people like that on the street,” he added, “so I’ll just walk right by.”
“So while she’s blabbering, I walk right by her. And as soon as I got to him it was like, boom! He just pushed me.”
Police and law enforcement sources said the woman, wearing a long, brown trench coat, threw Morales onto the J train tracks.
And Morales said the whole thing feels like it’s happening in slow motion.
“In my mind, I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I’m falling onto the track,'” he said, adding that he landed straight on the ground on his back.
“I don’t know this woman. We didn’t even exchange words. …You see it all the time. But you never think you’ll be one of those people.”
Morales’s mother, Evelyn, 66, was in shock and crying Monday.
The distraught mother said, “Luckily there was no train there – it could have hit him.” “They almost killed my son and I didn’t even know.”
Morales said he could not climb back onto the platform after the fall, so he walked down the tracks until he hit a service staircase that brought him back to the waiting area.
“When I come up, I still see him wandering around,” he said. “I had a key chain with a long string, so I’m turning it around and I start yelling at him. I say, ‘You are crazy!’ You tried to kill me!”
Police arrived around the same time and Morales told them what the woman did.
“I’m like, ‘He just pushed me onto the tracks!'” Morales said, adding that he could begin to feel the pain that would later come from a broken knee, hairline wrist fracture and head and shoulder injuries. Will be recognized as.
“I told the conductor at the toll booth that I needed an ambulance.”
Later, the police told him that other people had called to say that a middle-aged woman was taunting people and also trying to push them onto the tracks.
He was treated at Woodhull Hospital and released.
Morales’ mother said she was crying when she picked up her son — and she called on the city to stop such senseless crimes.
“They have to do something – this is bad. You can’t even go out,” she said. “We are living in hell here. You can’t even go out. …I thank the Lord that he is with us.”
But despite the traumatic and nearly fatal incident, Morales bears no ill will toward the woman.
“I don’t want any harm to come to her, because it was a mental thing,” he said. “God bless him, wherever they find him. He needs help.”
He also said that people like him should be institutionalized.
“Now, just have to take some medicine and go home,” Morales said. “It’s sad because the system we have right now – you get mentally healthy people around people who are not mentally healthy.”
On Monday, two policemen were deployed on the Manhattan-bound side of the station platform — and said they were there to increase police presence in the wake of the near-tragedy.
The NYPD is still searching for the woman, who fled after the incident.
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