A New Year’s Eve reveler — running next to a moving 1 train at Times Square — slipped and got his legs caught between moving cars on Wednesday, officials said.
The unidentified 20-something man was dragged 40 feet before the train stopped and police ran to his aid shortly before 3:30 a.m.
He is expected to survive and keep both legs, law-enforcement sources said.
“He was saying, ‘I can’t feel my legs, I can’t feel my legs, I think I’m going to die!’ ” said witness and TV producer Cathy Chermol Schrijver, who knelt beside the man and held his hand before paramedics took him to Bellevue Hospital.
The terrified straphanger was convinced that his legs had been ripped off in the freak accident.
“ ‘My legs are off!’ No, no, you’re legs are on, I told him,” said Schrijver, an Upper West Side resident.
She continued to comfort him: “You’re in the best city in the world. You’re doing OK. Look at all these people trying to help you. They’re going to get your legs going the right way.”
The man had just missed the uptown 1 and had run alongside banging on doors, in hopes it would stop. But he lost his balance and fell.