Bx. subway-push ordeal

A construction worker lost his leg when an attacker pushed him in front of a subway train at a Bronx station Wednesday — but the victim managed to make light of the situation hours later, cops and neighbors said.

Luis Henriques, 43, of Claremont, was hit by a B train at about 6:40 a.m. at the 170th Street/Grand Concourse station, according to police sources.

Speaking to his landlord via phone at about 1 p.m. — shortly after doctors at Lincoln Hospital had to amputate the limb — Henriques tried his best to remain upbeat, despite the grim circumstances.

“Now I have no leg,” he told landlord and friend Marisol Del Castillo.

“He was in pain and he was making jokes about it,” Del Castillo told The Post. “He’s the type of person who makes jokes.”

Henriques was waiting to catch a train to his job site in Brooklyn when he got into an argument with a turnstile jumper, sources said.

At some point, either during or after the angry exchange, Henriques was pushed onto the tracks in front of the arriving train.

The motorman later said that he “saw somebody fly in front of ” him, but couldn’t stop in time, according to NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Joseph Fox.

Henriques was at Lincoln Hospital in serious condition.

The suspect (left) was still at large Wednesday night, according to police. Now, after losing his leg, Henriques may be forced to find a new employment field.

“His type of job is construction — painting, demolition,” Del Castillo explained.

“He’s not going to be able to work anymore at what he loves to do.

“It’s frustrating. Bad things happen to good people,” the landlord lamented.