The woman shoved onto subway tracks last week in Brooklyn revealed she narrowly cheated death thanks to two Good Samaritans — and sounded a dire warning about NYC’s safety crisis under Mayor Mamdani.
The 51-year-old was lying in bed and wearing a back brace because of a spinal injury as she recalled for The Post the heinous Valentine’s Day attack on her way to work around 8:45 a.m. at the 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue subway station in Sunset Park.
“I was facing death,” she said. “I called out for my mom but the only thing I could think about was my children. I didn’t want to leave them alone.”
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of her safety, was standing on the R line platform when repeat violent offender Curtis Signal came up behind her and allegedly pushed her to the tracks, cops said.
His only words to her were “Shut up,” she recalled.
She went flying about five feet down and slammed into the track bed, landing in pain on her back and stunned.
The brute also punched a 43-year-old woman who was waiting for the train.
A pair of good Samaritans helped her back on the platform with seconds to spare before a R train roared into the station, she said.
She is worried there will be others like her across Gotham.
“The system is failing,” she said, ripping the socialist mayor’s plan to use social workers to address crime involving the city’s legion of dangerously deranged.
“How is a social worker going to manage this guy?” she asked, referring to the Department of Community Safety Mamdani hopes to create.
“He was a big guy who hit me with so much force,” added the victim. --->READ MORE HERE
A maniac who allegedly pushed a woman onto Brooklyn subway tracks and punched another straphanger in the face Saturday finished off his violent tirade by pummeling an innocent 17-year-old girl moments later, prosecutors revealed Sunday.
Curtis Signal — who has a history of violence against women — slugged the teen “dead in the face,” prosecutors alleged during his arraignment Sunday evening in Brooklyn Criminal Court on a slew of charges.
The girl had been trying to get out of his way before the random attack, Assistant District Attorney Tziyonah Langsam told the courtroom.
Signal, 25, had first approached three women on the R subway line at 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park early Saturday, telling one to “shut up” before lunging at them, Langsam said.
He pushed a 51-year-old woman onto the train tracks, causing the stranger to sustain “substantial pain to the body and a laceration to the face,” Langsam said.
Signal continued the aggressive outburst, punching a 44-year-old woman and causing her face to swell, prosecutors added.
The alleged subway shover said he “did what he had to do” during the unprovoked attack, according to Langsam.
He also allegedly complained that “people want to fight for no reason,” and that he “always has to stand up” for himself. --->READ MORE HERE
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