A 79-year-old Vietnam War veteran and his wife celebrating her 75th birthday were randomly knocked to the ground by five brutes in Lower Manhattan this week — causing her to break her collarbone and four ribs.
Long Island residents Martin and Rosalyn Landsman were walking on Canal Street near Lafayette Street around 2 p.m. Wednesday when the violent crew allegedly mowed them down from behind.
“We were walking, I guess east to get to a subway – and that’s the last thing I remember,” Rosalyn, a retired speech-language therapist, told The Post Friday in an exclusive phone interview from the couple’s room at Bellevue Hospital.
“It was like a herd just running over something,” Martin, a former administrator at a major city hospital, recalled.
“Apparently [police] said three guys ran over [Rosalyn], which is apparently why she broke so many bones,” he said.