Get this man a cape.
A brave Brooklyn adman looked more like Superman when he jumped in front of an oncoming subway train to rescue an 18-year-old fashion student who fainted and fell unconscious onto the tracks.
Parsons student Rosie Rittenberry, 18, said that if it hadn’t been for Sunset Park neighbor Lance McGraw, she wouldn’t be alive.
“It was a life-or-death situation,” she said. “This could have turned out much, much worse.”
McGraw, a Michigan transplant who sells advertising, sprang into action on the Eighth Avenue platform in Brooklyn at 8:30 a.m. last Thursday when he saw Rittenberry suddenly stagger and somersault onto the tracks.
Rittenberry said she was on her way to class when she felt nauseous and dizzy. A classmate she was with later told her she was “turning white.”
“Everyone gasped and stopped and gawked when she fell,” McGraw said.
“I waited for someone who was bigger or who worked at the station to do something, but I saw no one was going to move.”
So McGraw threw off his headphones and backpack, and jumped down to the roadbed — as the N train bore down on them.
“I wasn’t thinking at all,” he said.
He grabbed Rittenberry under her arms and lifted her up to fellow riders on the platform.
“She was unconscious, and that worried me,” McGraw said.
“I thought she hit her head. I didn’t want to move her but there wasn’t any time. Her head snapped back and her body was limp when I picked her up.”
Afterward, other passengers helped him up to the platform.
By the time Rittenberry came to while sitting on a bench — doctors later told her she had low blood sugar — McGraw had boarded the train.
“I was late for work,” he explained.
“It’s a New York story, that’s for sure,” said McGraw, who has lived in the city for only a year and a half.
“And it has a happy ending.”
They were reunited a week later for a piece aired on Fox 5.
“I was so thankful,” she said. “We have a connection, sharing this similar, horrifying experience. I’m so indebted to him.”