NEW YORK — The daughter of a man pushed in front of a subway train and photographed a split-second before his death said Wednesday after a suspect was arrested that it "would have been great" if someone had helped her father up but "what's done is done."

A freelance photographer for The New York Post was waiting for a train Monday afternoon when he said he saw a man approach Ki-Suck Han, 58, at the Times Square station, get into an altercation with him and push him into the train's path.

Naeem Davis, 30, was arraigned Wednesday night on a second-degree-murder charge and ordered held without bail. He is due back in court Dec. 11. Information on his lawyer was not available. Davis was taken into custody Tuesday after security video showed a man fitting his description working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center. Police said Davis made statements implicating himself in Han's death. Davis has several prior arrests in New York and Pennsylvania on mostly minor charges, including drug possession.

Han's only child, Ashley, 20, said at a news conference Wednesday that her father was always willing to help someone. But when asked about why no one helped him up, she said: "What's done is done."

"The thought of someone helping him up in a matter of seconds would have been great," she said.

Ashley Han stood with her mother, Serim Han, inside their Presbyterian church in Queens. The family came to the U.S. from Korea about 25 years ago. They said Han was unemployed and had been looking for work.

Their pastor said the family was so upset by a front-page photo of Han in The Post taken just before he was hit by the train that they had to stay with him for comfort.

"I just wish I had one last chance to tell my dad how much I love him," Ashley Han said.

The Post photo in Tuesday's edition showed Ki-Suck Han with his head turned toward the train, his arms reaching up but unable to climb off the tracks in time.

The image, and others of Han on the tracks published by the paper, brought swift criticism of the photographer for shooting and not helping, and the newspaper for splashing the ghoulish image with the headline "Doomed."

"Somebody's taking that picture," Al Roker said on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday. "Why aren't they helping this guy up?"

The photographer, R. Umar Abbasi, told the "Today" show Wednesday that he was trying to alert the motorman to what was going on by flashing his camera.

He said he was shocked that people nearer to the victim didn't try to help in the 22 seconds before the train struck.

"It took me a second to figure out what was happening ... I saw the lights in the distance. My mind was to alert the train," Abbasi said.

"The people who were standing close to him ... they could have moved and grabbed him and pulled him up. No one made an effort," he added.

In a written account Abbasi gave The Post, he said crowd members snapped photos on their cellphones after Han was pulled, limp, onto the platform. He said he shoved them back as a doctor and another man tried in vain to resuscitate Han.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Han, "if I understand it, tried to break up a fight or something and paid for it with his life."

The suspect's last known address was in a working-class neighborhood in Queens. The only neighbor who even vaguely remembered Davis was Charles Dawes, 80. Davis "came and went, came and went, and he always looked serious," Dawes said. "But I haven't seen him for three or four months."

Subway pushes are unusual. Among the more high-profile cases was the 1999 death of Kendra Webdale, who was shoved to her death by a former mental patient.

Material from The New York Times is included in this report.