The straphanger randomly shoved onto tracks by a muttering maniac Saturday is an ER pediatrician who was on his way home from work at the time — and is now just “happy he’s still alive,” his pal told The Post.
The 44-year-old victim was heading back to his Upper West Side pad after a shift at Harlem Hospital and waiting for a No. 1 train at the 50th Street and Seventh Avenue station in Manhattan around 7:50 p.m. when the nut came up behind him, according to cops and the friend, Takayuki Matsumoto.
“[The unhinged attacker] was screaming and walking toward him, and the next thing, [the victim] was pushed,” said Matsumoto, speaking to The Post at the home of the injured rider, who was inside sleeping while recovering, on Sunday.
“It’s not like he was walking on the edge of the platform or anything,” the man said of his doctor friend. “He was walking in the middle of it, and suddenly, this guy approached him and pushed him…