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A Brooklyn straphanger was randomly shoved onto subway tracks by a woman in a gray trench coat Sunday morning, cops say. The 43-year-old victim was standing on a southbound platform at the Kosciuszko Street station in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9 a.m. when his unidentified assailant in a long coat suddenly pushed him onto the J train tracks, the NYPD and police sources told The Post.

A straphanger was slugged in the face by an irate seatmate on a Manhattan-bound subway — but he managed to wrestle the “little b–ch” to the ground until cops could intervene. Alexander Rakitin, 42, was riding the N Train to his Manhattan finance job Monday morning when he sat down next to 34-year-old Timothy Barbee. As the train took off, the car jolted causing Rakitin’s knee to jostle Barbee’s — which set the alleged assailant off.

A maniac ignited a cup of liquid and hurled it at a stranger on a Manhattan subway Saturday, setting fire to the man’s shirt and burning his chest and neck, cops said. The terrifying episode is the second time in four months someone tossed flaming liquid at a straphanger — and authorities are investigating whether the same fire bug is to blame in both incidents. The latest incident unfolded as the No. 1 train was pulling into the Houston Street station at West Houston and Varick Streets around 2:45 p.m.

She is the scarred face of spiraling subway crime. Sixteen procedures and more than a year after a deranged stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face in a Brooklyn train station... The random act of transit violence forever changed her life — and now, with subway crime up nearly 20% so far this year, she’s speaking out about how more cops and mental health resources are needed to restore safety and sanity to the rails. An unhinged woman, later identified as Rodlin Gravesande, suddenly and without saying a word, splashed sulfuric acid in her face... “I felt the pain immediately...

A Big Apple straphanger was repeatedly slammed in the head with a metal pipe at a Queens subway station — the latest example of the recent outburst of violence in the city’s troubled transit system. The latest underground assault took place shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday at the Queensboro Plaza station when a thug walked up to the 31-year-old victim and struck him in the head “multiple times” in an unprovoked attack, according to police. The bearded attacker then fled, leaving the victim unconscious. He was taken to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to be treated for several cuts...

The maniac suspected of randomly shoving a woman into a moving Manhattan train — leaving her with life-threatening injuries — was busted in New Jersey on Thursday, law enforcement sources said. Sabir Jones, 39 — who allegedly pushed the unsuspecting 30-year-old victim into a departing downtown F train at the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station around noon Wednesday — was picked up in Newark and taken to a local hospital, the sources said. He was not immediately charged. It came as sources also said Thursday that Jones was believed to have attacked another straphanger at the same Midtown station just minutes...

A woman robbed a straphanger at knifepoint inside a lower Manhattan subway subway station during Wednesday morning rush-hour, police said. The victim was on the 2/3 train platform at the Fulton Street station around 9:30 a.m. when the mugger flashed a knife at her and grabbed the contents of her purse, according to the NYPD. The suspect then ran off and was in the wind Wednesday afternoon, cops said. No additional information was immediately available. The robbery came the day after a 34-year-old woman was shoved onto subway tracks by a stranger while waiting on the 1/2/3 train platform at...

A train operator was beaten by an unhinged pipe-wielding man, and a straphanger was stabbed by a stranger in separate attacks on the subway system over the weekend, cops said Tuesday. The most recent of the two incidents took place at the 168th Street-Washington Heights station around 11:45 p.m. Sunday when a passenger began arguing with the subway worker as he cleared a northbound C train that was taken out of service, police said. The rider refused to get off the train and flashed a box cutter and a metal pipe at the 37-year-old male worker, who had ordered him...

A man has been busted for groping a stranger aboard a Brooklyn train in the middle of the afternoon – then hurling homophobic insults at her and breaking her nose in a brutal beatdown, police said Monday. Ian Williams, 22, was nabbed Sunday and charged with forcible touching, assault and sexual abuse in the Thursday attack on a J train in Bushwick, cops said. Williams is accused of grabbing the buttocks of the woman, also 22, on the southbound platform at Broadway and Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick around 1:15 p.m., police said. The unwanted contact sparked a fight between the...

<p>I don't know how many of you read this story in "The Post", or heard about on the local news, but The Straphangers Campaign has just released its annual "State of the Subways" report.</p> <p>According to this article, the report "ranks each line based on what a $2 ride is really worth...based on Transit Authority data from the last six months of 2003."</p>