UPDATED--JUST ANOTHER DAY ON THE SUBWAY--STRAPHANGER IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOVED INTO PATH OF MOVING TRAIN BY HOODIE WEARING MANIAC

A Big Apple straphanger was shoved onto Manhattan subway tracks and struck by an incoming 1 train in a cowardly attack Tuesday — miraculously surviving the horrifying caught-on-video ordeal.

In what cops are calling a random attack, an unidentified 45-year-old man was at the 18th Street station shortly after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when the hooded thug pushed him onto the tracks.

Incredibly, the victim survived the harrowing assault with just a head injury — while cops are now grilling a person of interest in the cowardly afternoon attack.  MORE AT Straphanger in critical condition after being shoved into path of moving NYC subway train by hoodie-wearing maniac

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