A man shoved onto Brooklyn subway tracks by emotionally disturbed female stranger escaped with only minor injuries — but wound up arrested on an outstanding DWI warrant when cops responded, NYPD officials said Monday.
The 43-year-old victim was walking on the Kosciuszko St. station’s J train platform when the woman randomly pushed him about 7:40 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
No train was coming at the time and the shocked victim was able to climb back onto the platform and alert a transit worker.
When cops arrived, they discovered the victim was being sought for not paying a fine after he pleaded guilty in a 2021 drunk driving case.
In that case, cops found the victim sleeping behind the wheel of a stopped car that was obstructing traffic on Kosciuszko Street in Brooklyn, according to the criminal complaint. When a police officer approached him, the victim declared: “I’m just f**ked up right now, I’ll take it upstairs. I had that beer right there, I fell asleep. I probably had like two shots of Hennessey.”
In the latest incident, medics took the man to Brookdale Hospital to be treated for a minor head injury resulting from the push onto the tracks. A judge dismissed the unpaid fine from the 2021 case.
The stranger who shoved him onto the tracks ran off and has not been caught. She’s described as a 5-foot, 4-inch tall Black woman who was wearing a gray coat.
