The music’s over

Blind pianist sues over subway fall

A blind pianist who fell off a Brooklyn subway platform and was nearly crushed to death by a train is suing the MTA, saying his injuries left him unable to play music.

“I can’t move my fingers the same way,’’ lamented Luis Veloz, who was trained at the Conservatory Federico Chopin in Ecuador before moving to New York 15 years ago.

“The doctor would tell me to use the piano as therapy for my fingers, but I can no longer play a song.”

Veloz, 56, told The Post that he was using his walking stick to follow a rough yellow strip on the Gtrain platform inside the Church Avenue station last year but lost his footing when the line vanished.

The 2-inch-wide warning strip, which is used to help guide the visually impaired, runs parallel to the edge of the platform.

“I was feeling that rough strip along the platform, but I suddenly stopped sensing it and became very disoriented,” Veloz said.

The pianist — who says he is able to see only shadows because he was born with the genetic disorder retinitis pigmentosa — said he didn’t know how far he was from the edge.

“I didn’t realize I was at the edge of the platform and fell. I don’t remember much else,’’ he said.

Veloz’s lawyer, Scott Seskin, said a train ran over the pianist while he was passed out on the tracks.

When Veloz regained consciousness, he was at Lutheran Hospital being prepped for surgery.

“I woke up after being unconscious for three days, and my wife was giving doctors permission for me to undergo surgery,” he said.

After multiple operations to his right arm, head and ear, Veloz has permanent disabilities that render him unable to work again, he said.

“I still have pain in my arm, back, head, fingers, ears,” Veloz said. “I can no longer play the piano, teach, or get any other job.”

“The piano was everything to me,” he said. “I was playing since I was 6 years old. Music has always been a part of my life. This accident changed everything.”

Veloz, who worked for a company that makes bags for the military and hospitals before the accident, said he now struggles to support his family.

His Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit contends that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City Transit created “dangerous and defective conditions.”

He says the accident has cost him more than $1 million in medical bills and future loss of earnings.

The MTA and NYC Transit declined to comment.