Two NYPD detectives sprang into action after a 24-year-old woman wearing an angel costume fell onto subway tracks in lower Manhattan during the early hours after Halloween. Video shared with The Post captured the dramatic rescue at the Chambers Street station, as reported by The New York Post.

Detectives Brett Devine and Carmelo Stracuzzi were working an overtime tour when the woman accidentally plunged from the platform shortly after 1 a.m. on Nov. 1. The incident unfolded at the station serving the No. 1, 2 and 3 subway lines.

“We heard someone yelling that somebody had fallen onto the subway tracks,” Devine, 36, recalled. The detectives immediately ran toward the platform, where they found the woman lying unconscious on the railbed.

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Devine asked his partner for a flashlight because he believed it might help alert the operator of any approaching train. “She was totally unconscious, and I jumped down onto the tracks,” Devine said.

The woman had landed perilously close to the electrified third rail, according to the detectives. Devine, a father of four daughters ranging in age from 1 to 19, quickly realized the platform stood much higher than it appeared from above.

“I couldn’t believe how high the platform was because that’s the first time I’ve been down there,” Devine said. The detective, who joined the force in 2012, checked whether the woman would respond.

“I kind of gave her a shoulder tap to see if she would wake up, which she didn’t,” Devine said. At the same time, the detectives heard an announcement warning that a train was arriving at the station.

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They did not know whether the announcement concerned the downtown local No. 1 track, where the woman remained unconscious, or the express tracks across the platform. That uncertainty injected even more urgency into an already dangerous rescue.

Stracuzzi, 42, recalled noticing lights at the end of the tunnel but could not tell whether they came from an approaching train. “I’m like, ‘Oh boy . . . we gotta kind of move a little quickly here,’” said Stracuzzi, who joined the department in 2011.

Devine moved beneath the woman’s arms while Stracuzzi grabbed her legs. “At that point, I went under the arms, and Detective Stracuzzi grabbed the legs, and we hoisted her onto the subway platform,” Devine said.

The woman, whose identity was not released, remained limp as the detectives pushed her back to safety. The officers then faced another challenge because they had to pull themselves out of the tracks, which were 4 feet deep.

Another officer standing on the platform helped pull the detectives to safety. Two minutes later, a train barreled into the station, although it arrived on the express track across the platform rather than the local track where the rescue occurred.

“We’re not sure if it was rerouted or not,” Stracuzzi said. The detectives were left with the stark reality that the train’s arrival came only moments after they had removed the unconscious woman and climbed back onto the platform.

“That’s not an everyday occurrence for us, as far as having someone fall onto the subway tracks,” Devine said. A good Samaritan then helped the detectives carry the woman up the station stairs.

The officers transported the woman to a hospital in their own vehicle because 911 was busy following Halloween festivities. Stracuzzi, who has two daughters, ages 4 and 7, said his oldest would be excited to watch footage of him helping save a woman dressed as an angel.

“I’m just thankful we were there to help her,” Stracuzzi said. “Who knows what could have happened if we weren’t there?”

The Detectives’ Endowment Association praised Devine and Stracuzzi as heroes for their swift actions. “They prove exactly why they’re called the greatest detectives in the world, and this union is proud to represent them,” DEA President Scott Munro said.

A police source suggested the woman’s angel wings offered a fitting image after all three escaped the tracks safely. “You see those wings on the track from the woman’s costume and can’t help wondering if an angel was looking out for all of them,” the source said.

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