Metro

Conn. man falls onto subway tracks, under train and lives!

A 55-year-old disabled tourist fainted and fell into the path of an oncoming express train at Times Square yesterday — but miraculously cheated death by landing between the rail and the recessed wall under the platform, sources said.

Benigno Nazario of East Hartford, Conn. — who suffers from high blood pressure and walks with two canes — had just stepped off a northbound No. 1 train with his wife when he tumbled into the path of a No. 3 train on the other side of the platform at about 3:45 p.m.

“We were walking, and out of nowhere, he lost his balance,” Nazario’s wife, Ana, 50, told The Post last night.

“He turned over and fell onto the tracks. I was screaming, ‘Help!’ I thought he was going to die.’’

Benigno Nazario, a father of two who had just retired from his job with Honda a month ago, had luckily fallen to the side of the track, in a small cavity under the platform, just as the train headed into the station.

The operator slammed on the brakes, stopping the train as the first car was partly over Nazario.

He escaped serious injury, avoiding contact with the electrified third rail. He suffered a punctured lung and two broken ribs, police said.

“I’m born again — I have another chance at life!’’ Nazario, who recently became a grandfather, told his wife from his Bellevue Hospital bed.

She told The Post, “He’s doing OK, he’s alert.’’

Ana and Benigno have been married for 20 years and have two sons, Raul, 30, and Oswaldo, 27.

They were on the second day of a three-day trip to Manhattan to celebrate Ana’s third anniversary of beating breast cancer.

“I had treatment at Sloan-Kettering, so we came back [this time] to celebrate — [today] will be three years cancer-free,’’ Ana said.

The couple had just taken a scenic helicopter tour and were about to sightsee around Times Square, where their hotel is, before Benigno fell to the tracks, Ana said.

He was conscious when rescue workers pulled him out from under the train and rushed him to Bellevue, where he was listed in stable condition.

Additional reporting by Jennifer Fermino, Zoey Russo and Dana Sauchelli