Gal pushed to tracks wants to thank saviors

A NEW JERSEY mom wants to shake the hands of the subway saviors who pulled her to safety after a deranged man shoved her onto the tracks at an East Village station.

“They gave me new life. If they didn’t help me, if they didn't give me that hand, I would (have) otherwise died,” Kamala Shrestha told the Daily News on Wednesday.

Shrestha, 49, was headed home from her job at an East Village nail salon when she was pushed onto the uptown F train tracks at the Second Ave. and Houston St. station about 8:50 p.m. on Tuesday.

“(The) train was almost coming,” she said from bed at her New Jersey home.

“At that same time the guy came and said, ‘I’m going to kill you.’ He was very strong and he just pushed me.”

The left side of her body slammed into the middle of the tracks, and her head struck the metal and split open, leaving a large gash. “I tell someone, ‘Help me! Help me!’ I was scared. The two guys, they give me (their) hands, saying ‘Come on! Come on!’

“They pulled me out,” she added. “I feel so good because they helped me.

“I want to see them, I want to thank them.”

A native of Nepal, Shrestha has been a regular straphanger since she moved to the New York area 15 years ago, but now she’s scared to use it.

“The subway is not safe. You just never know, anything can happen,” she said.

The unhinged man who pushed the mother of three is still out there.

“I want to Shrestha said.

“My kids, my family, everybody uses the subway. I want him arrested. I don’t want him to do this to anyone else.”

Shrestha’s husband, Nam, told The News, “I feel lucky she is alive. He tried to kill her. He pushed her to die on the train tracks.”

Nam Shrestha, 54, said he would like to see more security on the subway platforms. find the guy,” “There was not a single police officer there,” he said.

“If there was police, they could have stopped him, they could have caught this man.”

The suspect is described as a black man between 50 and 55 with a slim build.

He was wearing a black T-shirt and dark pants, police said.

Cops are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.