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CCTV footage captured the chilling moment a man in a hoodie abruptly turned around on the platform and shoved a stranger onto the tracks.
In a separate video showing rescuers pulling the man out from between carriages, a woman can be heard exclaiming with relief: ‘He’s alive, he’s alive!’.
A New Yorker experienced every subway commuter’s worst nightmare when he was pushed under an oncoming train – but astonishingly survived.
He had been waiting at 18th Street station in Chelsea, Manhattan, at around 1.30pm on New Year’s Eve when the assault took place.