Man tries to shove subway operator onto tracks

a man allegedly beat up and tried to shove an MTA train operator onto the tracks of a lower Manhattan subway station at 12:45 a.m. on Tuesday.

The 33-year-old worker, Heriberto Santiago, was standing on the platform of the Bowling Green station when he saw Michael Vasquez, 28, holding the doors of a 4 train and asked him to stop, sources said.

Vasquez yelled at him and allegedly tried to shove the worker off the platform.

He also allegedly punched Santiago several times in the face.

Other transit workers held Vazquez until cops arrived.

“My wife is pregnant with triplets right now, and this is a high-risk pregnancy,” Santiago told The Post Tuesday. “This whole ordeal has put a lot of stress on her. We are very upset.”

Police arrested Vasquez at the scene and charged him with assault and reckless endangerment.

“We are on the front lines of a transit system that moves 8 million riders a day to work, school and everywhere else. We take pride in our work, but all too frequently we pay a steep price in blood,” said TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen.

The scary underground incidents have made straphangers change their riding habits.

“I will start to stand farther away from the tracks and use common sense,” said Vanessa Edelman, 29, of the Lower East Side.

Rider Amanda Schiller, 24, of the East Village, said, “I am not going to stand close to the track until the train comes.”

Additional reporting by Jazmin Rosa and Elizabeth Rosner