New York Post

2nd subway shover pushes gal to tracks

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A brute shoved a woman onto subway tracks in Brooklyn over the weekend — just days after a similarly terrifying attack on another woman, police said Sunday.

The 28-year-old victim was waiting for a Manhattan-bound 5 train at the President Street and Nostrand Avenue station in Crown Heights at around 8 p.m. Saturday when the man randomly shoved her from behind, sending her tumbling onto the tracks, cops said.

The woman was able to pull herself up onto the platform, police said. There were no witnesses.

She was taken to Kings County Hospital Center with cuts to her chin and an injured foot, according to police and sources.

The attacker took off after the assault, but the station has no security cameras — and no workers on duty saw the man, a high-ranking police source said.

“[Police] are going to do an extended canvas,” the source said.

The victim’s sister told The Post the woman was resting after the “traumatic” incident and was too shaken up to speak. The sibling called the lack of cameras at the station a “glaring safety issue.”

Saturday night’s attack came after repeat transit menace Isaiah Thompson was caught on cellphone video allegedly shoving a woman head-first into a stopped train at the DeKalb Avenue station in Fort Greene on Wednesday.

Earlier that day, Thompson also allegedly pushed a 58-year-old man into a stationary train at a station in Queens, sources have said.

Subway riders Sunday were outraged.

“Accidents can happen anywhere, but now you have to worry about some nutjobs shoving you?” said Victor Santiago, 59, while waiting for a train at Barclays Center. “I don’t see why the MTA can’t have cameras at every station.”

Gabi Lyons, 39, said she supported legislatio­n that would ban repeat offenders like Thompson from riding the rails.

“I try not to ride the subway too late now because you never know what’s going to happen,” she said.

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