A heartless stranger pushed a 3-year-old girl to the ground in an unprovoked broad-daylight Brooklyn attack this week – as the tot’s mom described the shove as “intentional” and pleaded for help getting the “obviously dangerous” assailant off the street. 

The toddler’s mom, 37, said she and her daughter were walking on McDonald Avenue near Albemarle Road in Kensington around 12:50 p.m. Monday when they stopped to check on a neighbor’s daughter who had fallen off her scooter. 

That’s when the maniac blindsided the little girl – shoving her to the pavement for no reason, according to cops and the mom, who did not want to be identified. 

“Out of nowhere, this man came from behind me so fast I didn’t even have a chance to know what’s happening,” the girl’s mom said. “So I couldn’t stop it. I couldn’t see arms or hands or face. I just saw her go down. Immediately I picked her up. He kept going, and everyone was yelling.”

The brute – who is not known to the family – ran off on foot, heading north on McDonald Avenue, police said. 

The tot was left with a scraped elbow but was not hospitalized after the random attack. 

The startled mom was able to get her hands on video surveillance from a Foodtown supermarket at the intersection, proving that the attack was intentional, she said. 

“We always want to think the best of people. I initially thought someone ran into her, ran her down and kept going without any regard to her,” she said. “So obviously, no remorse — I knew that was an issue. But it wasn’t until I was able to view footage to see that it was an intentional attack, clearly aiming directly for my daughter, and he used his arm and his body weight to clothesline her.”

Meanwhile, her daughter was “shaken up,” but too young to understand intent or “mental instability,” she said. 

The girl’s mom, who said she has lived in Kensington her whole life – with family roots in the “pretty safe neighborhood” dating back to 1940 – said the NYPD responded “swiftly” and “diligently” to the attack. 

“We’re eager for the perpetrator to be off the street – he’s obviously dangerous,” she said. 

Video released by the NYPD Wednesday shows the suspect walking on the sidewalk with the hood of his green jacket pulled up over his head, also wearing black pants and gray sneakers.

Anyone with information on the senseless attack is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). 

The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at  https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.