NEW YORK — Lorna Beach-Mathura, the ex-Transit Police employee accusing Mayor Eric Adams of sexual assault, filed for bankruptcy last summer — and days later brought a lawsuit alleging New York City should pay her at least $75,000 for a slip-and-fall she had in Queens, the Daily News has learned.

Beach-Mathura filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in her home state of Florida this past Aug. 28, laying out how she’s nearly $333,000 in debt to various creditors, court papers reviewed by The News show.

Two weeks later, on Sept. 11, Beach-Mathura filed her slip-and fall suit against the city in Brooklyn Federal Court, court records reveal.

The alleged tumble happened Oct. 22, 2023 — a month before she first filed the $5 million assault claim against Adams that he denies — when Beach-Mathura, a practicing Buddhist, was on her way to Myosetsuji Temple in Flushing, where she was going to attend a ceremony, according to a transcript of an interview about the incident she had with city government lawyers last spring.

Specifically, Lorna-Beach, 68, told the city lawyers she had just exited the Court Sq. subway station in Long Island City and was about to cross the street to catch a bus.

“I started moving across a square, a large square area that looked like dirt, so I started walking across that area, that’s when I tripped,” she said under oath, according to the transcript, which was submitted in court.

“I started walking across and all of a sudden I felt my foot, my right foot trip on something and I started stumbling and I was trying to steady myself, and my left foot was moving forward and I tripped again and the next thing you know, I’m falling hard onto the sidewalk.”

Lorna-Beach alleges the fall was so bad she had to be taken to Elmhurst Hospital after sustaining “severe and permanent injuries” to her left wrist, left hand, left elbow, right knee, neck, back and chest.

According to her suit, the fall happened because of a “dangerous, defective and uneven” kink in the sidewalk that the city should have remedied. She submitted multiple photos along with her suit showing an empty sidewalk tree pit lined with bricks, several of which appear displaced, and claimed her injuries should prompt a judge to order the city to pay her a sum that “exceeds $75,000, exclusive of interests and costs.”

In a response filed in October, an attorney for the city Law Department rejected Lorna-Beach’s argument, writing she “should have known” of “the risks and dangers incident to engaging in the activity alleged” and that the city “owed no duty” to her. In a subsequent letter to the court, the Law Department attorney wrote the city will seek to dismiss her suit because of a lack of specificity in an initial notice she filed detailing her allegations.

The presiding judge has asked Beach-Mathura and the city to provide a status update Jan. 31.

Beach-Mathura, who lives in Miami, and the lawyer representing her in the slip-and-fall suit didn’t immediately return requests for comment Tuesday.

Amid the slip-and-fall action, Beach-Mathura’s bankruptcy filing is pending in the Sunshine State.

According to records submitted in Southern Florida Bankruptcy Court, Beach-Mathura owes $328,855 to more than a dozen creditors, including banks and hospitals. She reported in court papers she has no regular income, but owns a home worth about $380,000 and receives roughly $3,100 per month in retirement and Social Security benefits.

Spokespeople for Adams and the Law Department, which represents him in the assault case, didn’t immediately return requests for comment on Beach-Mathura’s bankruptcy and slip-and-fall actions.

Her new legal actions come as her assault suit against Adams is also pending, a case that first came to light in November 2023, when she filed a notice of claim with the city.

Last March, she then filed her lawsuit, which alleges Adams tried to force her to perform oral sex on him in a parked car in 1993 while they worked together for the since-defunct city Transit Police Department. Beach-Mathura, who’s seeking at least $5 million in damages over the alleged assault, says that when she refused his proposition, he masturbated and ejaculated on her leg.

Adams has vehemently denied the accusations, saying he does not “recall ever meeting this person.” In August, Beach-Mathura’s attorney filed records in court showing she wrote emails about the alleged assault before Adams was elected mayor in 2021.

Beach-Mathura has filed several unsuccessful lawsuits in recent years, including a civil action against American Airlines in 2014 that alleged an employee injured her by causing her to fall out of her wheelchair. She has also written a self-help book offering advice about how to file pro se lawsuits.

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