Man charged with hate crime for using N-word, punching woman in Brooklyn subway

A Brooklyn antheral is facing hatred transgression charges for punching a 70-year-old Black pistillate and calling her the N-word during a clash with the alien astatine a Brooklyn subway stop, constabulary said Wednesday.

Allan Damsky, 69, was trying to debar the fare by entering the Kings Highway subway halt in Midwood done the exit gross astir 2:45 p.m. Tuesday erstwhile helium bumped into the victim, who was exiting the presumption with her husband, constabulary said.

When the pistillate said helium should dilatory down, Damsky called her the N-word, cops say.

“Shut up you anserine n—-r!” helium allegedly scowled.

When the stunned pistillate asked what helium meant by that, Damsky instantly began arguing with the woman, screaming, “You privation maine to punch you, you f—ing n—-r?” cops said.

He fulfilled his menace a infinitesimal later, allegedly striking the pistillate successful the face.

A brace of officers patrolling the presumption took Damsky into custody.

Damsky, who gave his location code arsenic the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters connected Eastern Parkway successful Crown Heights, claimed to cops the pistillate attacked him archetypal and that helium was defending himself. He besides claimed the unfortunate called him a “goddamn Zionist” earlier she attacked him.

“She was moving her rima but I gave it backmost to her,” Damsky told cops, constabulary say. “But contention had thing to bash with this.”

The pistillate suffered a bloody articulator but wasn’t earnestly hurt.

Cops charged Damsky with battle arsenic a hatred crime. He besides had an seat warrant but it was not instantly disclosed what it was for.

His arraignment successful Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Wednesday afternoon.