An 82-year-old man died weeks after he accidentally bumped into an elderly neighbor who violently shoved him to the ground during a Manhattan stroll, cops and sources said Thursday.
Dana Escoffier, 79, allegedly threw Dean Conover Whetzel onto a West Village sidewalk, leading him to hit his head during an argument after the pair mistakenly walked into one another around 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 11, according to cops and sources.
“I pushed him because he bumped into me,” Escoffier allegedly blurted out in front of a witness on Hudson Street near West 11th Street before he fled the scene, prosecutors said…