Subway fear after postman attacked

The wife of a postal worker who was kicked onto subway tracks by a stranger blasted the city’s “scary” transit system, and warned it “could have happened to anyone.”

Abu Khan, 64, was left battered after a deranged man kicked him onto the tracks at the Penn Station A-C-E platform on his way back home to Queens after a shift in Manhattan on Sunday night, his wife told The Post.

“He went to his job, was on the way back home and somebody on the subway pushed him and he fell down,” his wife, Jahan Khan, said from the couple’s Elmhurst home Monday.

“It was unnecessary to hit my husband and push him down,” she said. “There was no fight. It could have happened to anyone.”

Khan had been looking down at his phone when the unknown man approached him and asked him a question, police sources said. The father of two told the stranger he didn’t understand, only for the man to kick him onto the northbound train tracks, according to sources.

The incident has shaken Jahan, who said she refuses to take the subway even after the couple raised their 22year-old daughter and 20year-old son in the city.

“I am scared of the subway. It is very scary,” she said. “There are no police on the subway. How can someone push my husband down like that?”

Khan was helped to safety by other straphangers and taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital, where he remained Monday.

Jahan said she and her husband were only able to speak once briefly afterwards. “He has back pain, chest pain, arm pain, knee pain, head pain — everything hurts.”

Law-enforcement sources said the perpetrator was a man with a dark beard believed to be between 30 and 35 and about 5-foot-6. No arrests have been made.