Two men escaped the path of an oncoming subway train in lower Manhattan last night after one tumbled onto the tracks and the other went down to help.
The drama at the Bowling Green station unfolded just before 10 p.m. on the uptown side, according to Margaret Besheer, a journalist with Voice of America, who was catching a train home to Brooklyn.
“I heard a thud on the other side and when I looked over, people were going, ‘Ahhh,’ and panicking,” she said.
Besheer saw a man sitting stunned in the middle of the rail bed as people on the platform shouted, “Help him! Help him!”
Suddenly, Besheer said, a second man appeared on the tracks, presumably having jumped down to lend a hand.
“You could see the lights of the incoming train. It was horrifying,” said Besheer.
“It was like the other day all over again,” she continued, referring to when Queens dad Ki Suk Han was killed by a train Monday after he was hurled into its path, allegedly by homeless drifter Naeem Davis.
But luckily last night, “The train stopped in time and they pulled themselves up,” Besheer said.
“Everyone started to applaud.’’
The first man was taken to a hospital.
The second was uninjured, the MTA said.