THE FEAR

Vigil in Times Square for Michelle Go, killed by subway shover Adams: ‘We’re going to make sure people feel safe’

Nervous subway riders looked over their shoulders yesterday after Michelle Go (above) was killed by being shoved in front of a train by a crazed man. As mourners took to Times Square, Mayor Adams said he understood the fear.

Hundreds gathered in Times Square on Tuesday night for a vigil in memory of subway-shove victim Michelle Go — including a friend who said the slain woman cherished the city.

“She loved New York. We would talk about it in the pandemic that we would rather be nowhere else,’’ said Kim Garnett, a co-worker at the consulting firm Deloitte.

“She loved Central Park. She loved living on the Upper West Side,” Garnett said of the 40year-old California transplant, who was killed in a Times Square subway station Saturday.

“I was talking to one of my friends yesterday about what I would say about Michelle,’’ Garnett said. “The first thing that came to mind was, wow, she hated attention. And right now she’s listening and saying, ‘Is this reality? Did this happen in Times Square?’ ”

‘Always had a plan’

Go was remembered by another friend, Rakesh Duggal, as a travel enthusiast.

“We must have done a dozen trips together,” Duggal recalled.

“Wherever we went, Michelle always had a plan and it was often accompanied by a spreadsheet and all of the reservations.”

Duggal said Go never shied away from tough tasks at work: “She was a glass ceiling breaker. No challenge was too big or scary for her.”

Jae McGuire, 40, of Woodside, Queens, called Go’s death “senseless violence.”

“She didn’t even see her attacker,’’ McGuire said. “She’s standing there waiting for the train like me and what I do every day. This could happen to me or any of my friends.’’

Some speakers denounced anti-Asian violence in general. The horrific incident has not been

deemed a hate crime by the NYPD. Go was a Chinese American.

The vigil, held at the Red Steps in the Crossroads of the World and organized by Asians Fighting Injustice, came just three days after Go was pushed in front of an R train at the Times Square station.

Group founder Eric Wei told The Post they are demanding that City Hall set up an AsianAmerican task force. He also wants the city to address the mental-health crisis.

Martial Simon, the 61-year-old homeless man charged with Go’s murder, suffers from schizophrenia and has been in and out of mental hospitals for 20 years, his sister told The Post.

Go was waiting for a train at around 9:40 a.m. when she was shoved to her death.

‘Asian Lives Matter’

It has since emerged that she had spent the past decade volunteering to help the less fortunate — including the homeless.

Some people among the throngs at the vigil held signs that read “Asian Lives Matter Just Like Yours.”

“That could happen to anyone,” said one protester from Brooklyn, who identified himself only as Eric. “It could happen to anyone that was Asian. That could have happened to me.”

Mayor Adams, Lt. Gov. Brian

Benjamin and new Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also appeared at the vigil.

Adams, who faced a firestorm of controversy after Go’s death for arguing there is just a “perception of fear” on the subway, said Tuesday night that he is “recommitted to ensure that this will not happen in this city.”