It was a simple twist of fate.
A last-minute ticket offered by a pal to a concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown left a Brooklyn man with traumatic brain injury after another concert-goer fell two stories from a balcony and landed on his head, a new lawsuit claims.
Yosef Allen, 24, of Sheepshead Bay, was out of work for five months recuperating from the concert crash, which also left him with torn knee ligaments and lower back pain, he claims in his Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
Allen, who works at the B&H photo supply store in midtown, was a last-minute invitee to the concert by French electronic duo Justice at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Oct. 21, 2012 by a friend whose date had ditched him.
The balcony diver was unharmed after he fell off a railing, Allen’s attorney told the Post. Allen was on the main ballroom floor.
“The guy who fell got up on his own and walked out of the building,” attorney Glenn Faegenburg said.
“Nobody even stopped him. My guy absolutely absorbed the impact.”
Allen was taken away on a stretcher and is scheduled for a second knee surgery almost a year after the accident.
He’s only back to work part time and has memory loss.
Faegenburg claims photos from the concert show the W. 34th Street venue was overcrowded.
He blames lax security for allowing the unknown man to stand on the railing and allowing him to leave unquestioned after the fall.
The suit says the venue allowed concert goers “to be unruly,” drink “excessive amounts of alcohol” and “failed to furnish proper guardrails on the upper levels and balconies.”
Justice is a Grammy Award-nominated group based in France that was influenced by the heavy metal genre.
Reps for Hammerstein Ballroom said they could not immediately comment.