A gutsy student tried to save a woman from a crazed homeless person and was shoved onto the subway tracks for his effort, police said Friday.
Pace University student Jered Harvey, 19, of the Upper West Side escaped virtually unscathed after his brush with death at the Fulton Street station in the Financial District.
Harvey, whose stepdad is pro poker ace Olivier Busquet, intervened just before midnight Thursday on the uptown 2/3 platform.
“I could smell the alcohol on him,” Harvey said. “When a drunk man is beating a woman and you try and stop him, of course he’s gonna swing at you.”
Drifter Rayfield Grant, 29, socked the teen in the face and threw him onto the tracks before he was restrained by firefighters who happened to be nearby, cops said.
FDNY personnel subdued Grant (inset) until police arrived, an MTA spokeswoman said.
Harvey, who lives with his family in a $5 million brownstone that was the inspiration for the popular TV and book series “The Street of Flower Boxes,” was able to pull himself from the tracks, police said. He escaped with only minor injuries to his knee and scratches to his neck.
Grant was arrested and charged with attempted murder and assault. He has two prior arrests for drug-related incidents, including the sale of a controlled substance.
The woman involved in the fight with Grant left the scene before police could determine what spurred the altercation, authorities said.
— with Betsy Ferguson