Some heroes wear tights.
A Big Apple ballet dancer came to the rescue of a homeless man after he was shoved onto the subway tracks at an Upper West Side train station over the weekend.
Gray Davis, 31, a dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, was in the Broadway-Seventh Avenue station at 72nd Street after having watched his wife perform with the same ballet company at the Metropolitan Opera House when 58-year-old Stephen Ling was pushed.
Davis jumped down onto the uptown tracks at the station, where Ling was shoved by a woman at around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Ling, who is homeless, was knocked unconscious from the impact of the fall – and miraculously Davis was able to revive Ling and push him back up onto the platform in the nick of time before a train pulled into the station, cops said.
Emergency responders rushed Ling to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center where he was treated for cuts and bruises, according to police.
The suspect, Carolyn Mack, 23, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with assault for the attack, police said.
Davis, a native of Greenwood, SC, has been with the American Ballet Theatre since 2007.
Davis’s mother, Janie Krabbe B. LeTourneau, recounted the incident in a Facebook post shared by the American Ballet Theatre.
LeTourneau wrote how she, Davis and his wife, Cassandra Trenary, were in the train station headed home from Lincoln Center when “the most disturbing thing I have ever witnessed happened.”
“As we watched a man and woman on the opposite platform punching each other, Cassandra Trenary made Gray go look for security..all of a sudden the woman threw the man onto the train tracks, while a train was due any minute,” LeTourneau wrote.
“We were all horrified about what was about to happen as the man lay unresponsive on that track…out of no where and just in time we all watched as a brave young man jumped down, and lifted the man high up on to safety like he was a feather,” the post continued.
A “shocked” LeTourneau turned to her daughter-in-law and asked if that was Davis and Trenary responded, “Yes, it is.”
LeTourneau wrote how her son “then lifted himself up miraculously just before the train got there.”
“People started cheering and yelling ‘you are a hero’. The three of us have been in shock ever since,” said LeTourneau.
“My son has always made me proud, but I’ve never been as proud of him as I was tonight, out of 2 full platforms of people, he was the only person brave enough to jump down and save that man’s life. This certainly is a day I will never forget in more ways than one,” she wrote.
Mack initially fled the scene and ran up to the street-level.
She was followed by a witness who flagged down police in a squad car who ultimately nabbed her, police said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was asked about the incident by reporters on Monday, said he was “not aware of the details,” but did say, “I commend that dancer for doing that.”