Stranger pushes good Samaritan, 56, into moving NYC train as she tries to settle fight, breaking her back: cops, sources

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…

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