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A straphanger randomly shoved onto Brooklyn subway tracks was left traumatized to the point of being suicidal, his mom said Sunday — while blasting Mayor Eric Adams’ latest plan to try to curb soaring transit crime.

Audrey Martin, whose son David Martin, a 32-year-old Upper East Side waiter, suffered a broken collarbone and painful bruises in the Friday afternoon attack on an L train platform, railed to The Post, “Mayor Adams is completely not in touch with what’s going on.

“More cops? He’s wrong,” she said, referring to the plan touted by Hizzoner and Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday to flood the underground with additional NYPD and MTA cops on overtime to try to stem the terrifying bloodshed.

“This is a mental health issue,” she said. “We are not addressing the issue.

“More overtime is not the answer,” the distraught mom said. “Mayor Adams was a cop. He should know better. It’s all grandstanding. We have a city under crisis. We have a mental health crisis.”

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Martin suffered a broken collarbone and painful bruises in the attack, according to his mother.DCPI
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Martin was on his way to his job when he was attacked.DCPI
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The victim’s mother has called subway crime a “mental health crisis.”DCPI
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The mayor and governor’s plan includes new 25-bed units at two local psychiatric facilities for mentally ill homeless individuals. It also calls for cops and other first responders to receive training on how to best transport the mentally ill from subways to psychiatric care.

The mom said the city needs to expand its mental health services further.

She said her son was on his way to his job when he was attacked — and is now so distraught that he won’t even leave their apartment. 

“He’s completely traumatized,” she said. “He wants to kill himself. I had to take a knife away from him this morning.


  Police are investigating a random subway attack at a Brooklyn station Friday. Wayne Carrington Police are investigating a random subway attack at a Brooklyn station Friday. Wayne Carrington

“He’s in a lot of pain. His shoulder is completely shot. His back is completely shot. His underarm is completely shot. His face is constantly burning.

“I can’t get him out of the house,” she added. “He can’t get into bed, he can’t get out of bed. … He started smoking cigarettes again, which he’s not supposed to [do]. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know what to do.”

Asked if she had a direct message for Adams, the mom shot back, “Is there any point in talking to him?

“You know what I want him to do?” she said. “I want him to start building mental health facilities.

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The suspect has not yet been identified. DCPI

“There are all mental cases in the subway, and it’s not being handled at all. This is how we handle these situations — they just ignore it,” she said.

“We moved from Manhattan to Queens because we wanted to raise our kids without homeless people on our front porch,” she added.

A City Hall spokesman responded to The Post, “Mayor Adams has already spoken to Mr. Martin about the attack and how we can help. 

“The mayor also directed his Community Affairs Team to reach out to Mr. Martin and see how we can help further. They have also already connected with Mr. Martin and are in the process of doing that,” the rep said.

Meanwhile, Audrey Martin said that compounding her family’s personal crisis is the fact that her son doesn’t have health insurance. He also is shaken by watching the video of his attack.

“He keeps watching it over and over. He can’t stop. It’s not good for him,” she said.

David was on the northbound L train platform at the Wyckoff and Myrtle avenues station in Bushwick about 2:40 p.m. when he was attacked.

Shocking video footage from the incident shows the unsuspecting straphanger walking along the platform when his attacker runs up and shoves him to the tracks before fleeing. There were no trains entering the station at the time, and the victim was able to get to safety.

In an interview with WABC Eyewitness News after the attack, David Martin told the outlet that the shove came “in the blink of an eye.

“People were told that I had no injuries, but I am laying in bed with a broken collarbone, and my face is so swollen,” he said. “And mentally I don’t know how to even get through this.”

The incident is just the latest in a spate of transit violence in the city this year, with nine straphangers killed in subway attacks so far — or already more than any other year in 25 years.

Stats show that violent crime in the transit system is up 39% over 2019 as of August.

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