A hate-spewing Citi Bike rider slugged an elderly man in Central Park, called him a “F—king Jew pig” and even threatened to kill him — as bias crimes targeting Jewish victims continue to rise in the Big Apple, according to authorities and the victim.
The menace attacked 70-year-old Allan Ripp – a former journalist who now runs his own public relations firm and has lived on the Upper West Side since 1976 – around 6 p.m. July 13 along the West Drive near the 97th Street Transverse, according to cops.
The “super traumatic” incident unfolded as Ripp was walking his daughter’s dog, Biscotti, over a bridge at the park’s reservoir, and was body-checked by a bicycle-riding stranger.
“It was kind of like a scene out of a horror movie,” Ripp told The Post Friday in a phone interview.
