A man was led away in handcuffs on College Walk Monday morning after a dramatic police chase across campus ended outside Lerner Hall, witnesses said.

“It was crazy. I almost got hit by a cruiser,” said Quinn Orear, a graduate student in the School of Arts who was on College Walk setting up for the activities fair.

Two New York Police Department squad cars, an NYPD “paddy wagon,” and two unmarked vehicles rushed onto College Walk from the Amsterdam gates at 116th Street, he said.

A Facilities worker, who declined to identify herself because University employees are not allowed to comment on security matters, said she saw a man run across campus until he was pinned to the ground by a fellow Facilities worker.

She said it happened at 11:28 a.m.

“The guy [suspect] looked older, a little scrappy,” Orear said.

Public Safety officers said they had heard about the arrest but were not authorized to disclose information to students at this time.

The University declined to comment, and NYPD officials said they did not yet have an official record of the incident.