An unhinged woman with a lengthy rap sheet violently shoved two female Mexican tourists onto the tracks in a Manhattan subway station early Monday, the NYPD and sources charged.

Ebony Butts, 42, was arrested after pushing the women, ages 27 and 28, off the northbound F platform at the Delancey Street/Essex Street station – an unprovoked attack that prompted bystanders to spring into action to help, according to cops.

At least one good Samaritan, Joe Avila, 36, a tourist himself on a weekend trip from Texas, told The Post that he and others helped pull the women up from the tracks.

“It was surreal,” he said. “You hear stories of people getting pushed, but it actually happening in front of your eyes is different. 

“I was like, ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’ It all happened so fast.”

The unprovoked attack unfolded just after 2:15 a.m. inside the Lower East Side station, where the two women stood on an otherwise mostly empty platform near Avila, who was chatting with his friends and family.

As they waited for a train, a suspect – Butts, according to police – suddenly shoved one of the Mexican women onto the tracks, cops said.

Her friend scrambled to help the woman back up onto the platform, only to be also shoved off it by Butts, police said.

Bystanders, including Avila, rushed to help and pulled the two women safely back onto the platform, police said.

No train was incoming at the time of the incident.

One of the victims was spotted being taken out of the station in a wheelchair, while the other had to be helped up the stairs by first responders, photos taken by The Post show.

The women, who law enforcement sources said were on vacation from Mexico, were taken to Bellevue Hospital to be treated for minor injuries and released later Monday.

When reached by reporters Monday, the women declined to comment.

Cops already assigned to patrol the station quickly took the barefoot Butts into custody and hauled her away in cuffs.

Butts has since been charged with reckless endangerment and assault.

It wasn’t immediately clear why the suspect, who did not appear to know the two women, targeted the victims.

Sources described Butts, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital for an evaluation, as an emotionally disturbed person.

She has at least nine prior arrests to her name dating back to 1999, records show.

The most recent arrest on her rap sheet was another unprovoked attack where she punched a random 38-year-old woman in the face in Brooklyn in 2016.

MTA boss Janno Lieber, during an unrelated press conference later Monday, stressed the need to boost state funding to help clear the subway system of mentally ill people.

“Listen, we have made getting the seriously mentally ill people out of the subway, a huge priority, in addition to everything that’s being done at the state and the city level,” Lieber said during an unrelated press conference.

“We’re running a special program we call SCOUT, which puts three MTA police officers with a clinician to find the most seriously mentally ill people and to get them into treatment voluntarily, most of the time, but involuntarily if necessary, so we’re gonna keep pushing the governor has given us extra money to expand that program.”

Avila, who stayed with the two women on the platform as cops arrived, said he took the subway right after the attack.

He has since recounted the ordeal to friends.

“We joked about it, like, ‘Oh, this is the real New York experience,” he said.

— Additional reporting by Aneeta Bhole and Emily Crane