Brooklyn subway shove victim says crazed suspect was ‘arguing with herself’ before she pushed him: ‘She’s just screaming’

The deranged woman who randomly shoved a Brooklyn straphanger off the subway platform Sunday had been arguing with herself moments before the encounter — and had tried to toss others in front of the train, the victim said.

Steven Morales, 43, told The Post he’d been walking on the Kosciuszko Street station platform in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 9 a.m. as he made his way home from East New York when he noticed a mentally unstable woman.

“I see the woman, like, in the middle of the platform where the benches are,” Morales said on Monday. “She has her bags there. And she’s just screaming and arguing, I guess, at the imaginary. You know, just bugged out.”

“I’m used to seeing people like that on the street,” he continued, “so I’m just gonna’ walk right by her.” 

“So as she’s rambling, I just walk right by her. And as soon as I get to her it was like, boom! She just pushed me.” 

The woman — clad in a long, gray trench coat — tossed Morales onto the J train tracks, police and law enforcement sources said.  

And Morales said the whole thing seemed to happen in slow motion.  

“In my mind, I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I’m falling onto the track,’” he said, adding that he landed flat on his back.

“I don’t know this lady. We didn’t even exchange words. … You see it all the time. But you never think you’re going to be one of those people.” 

Morales’ mother, Evelyn, 66, was left shaken and sobbing Monday.

“Luckily there was no train — she could have killed him,” the distraught mom said. “They almost killed my son and I didn’t even know.” 

Morales said he couldn’t climb back onto the platform after the fall, so he walked down the tracks until he hit a service stairwell that brought him back to the waiting area.

“When I come up, I still see her rambling,” he said. “I had a keychain with a long rope, so I’m swinging it and I start yelling at her, ‘You’re crazy! You tried to kill me!’”

The cops arrived around the same time, and Morales told them what the woman did.

“I’m like, ‘She just pushed me onto the tracks!’” Morales said, adding that he could start to feel the pain of what would later be diagnosed as a fractured knee, hairline wrist fracture and a bruised head and shoulder.

“I told the conductor in the toll booth that I need an ambulance.”

Later, the cops would tell him that others had called to say a middle-aged woman had been taunting people and trying to shove them onto the tracks, too.

He was treated at Woodhull Hospital and released.

Morales’ mom said her son was crying when she picked him up — and she called on the city to halt such senseless crimes.

“They have to do something— this is bad. You can’t even go out,” she said. “We are living here in hell. You can’t even go outside. … I thank the Lord that he’s with us.”

But despite the traumatic and near-fatal event, Morales has no ill will toward the woman.   

“I wish her no harm, because it was a mental thing,” he said. “God bless her, wherever they can find her. She needs help.” 

He also said people like her should be institutionalized.

“Now, it’s just take some medication and go home,” Morales said. “It’s sad because the system right now — you got the people who are not mentally healthy around mentally healthy people.” 

On Monday, two cops were posted on the Manhattan-bound side of the station platform — and said they were there to bolster police presence in the wake of the near-tragedy.

The NYPD is still searching for the woman, who fled after the incident.