A stranger shoved a good Samaritan into a moving Harlem train – leaving her with a broken back and bleeding in her lungs – when she tried to break up a fight on a subway platform early Sunday, prosecutors and sources said.
The 56-year-old victim stepped into the fray when she spotted two men fighting on the southbound No. 2 and 3 train platform around 12:40 a.m., law-enforcement sources said.
Her attempt to help backfired when one of the men turned on her – pushing her into the side of an oncoming southbound No. 2 train, according to sources.
A 56-year-old woman was shoved into an oncoming No. 2 train in Harlem when she tried to break up a fight. Zandy Mangold
The victim bounced off the train and landed on the platform, but the attack left her with a cut on the side of her head, a black eye, a hole and bleeding in her lungs and spinal fractures, prosecutors and sources said.
Despite her injuries, she was able to point out her attacker to responding cops, police said.
Aaron Nett, 33, of Newark, NJ, was arrested and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, both as felonies, cops said.
Aaron Nett, 33, was arrested at the scene when the victim pointed him out to responding cops, police said. Christopher Sadowski
The victim was taken to Harlem Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, cops said.
Nett also was hospitalized for an evaluation, police said.
He was arraigned Monday on first- and second-degree assault charges and ordered held on $5,000 cash bail, $30,000 insurance company bond or $15,000 partially secured surety bond.
Nett, who has no prior arrests in the Big Apple, is set to reappear in court Friday.
It’s unclear if he and the other man who was fighting with him knew each other or what their dispute was about.