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A hate-fueled attacker allegedly pummeled a stranger who simply glanced at her in an unprovoked attack onboard a Manhattan train over the weekend, cops and sources said.

Genesis Gittens — who just turned 20 on Monday — was yelling on a southbound L train at the 1st Avenue and East 14th Street station around 2:10 a.m. Sunday when a 28-year-old man sitting in front of her turned to look, authorities and law enforcement sources said. 

Gittens then flew into a rage, repeatedly punching the straphanger in the face as she sneered, “White boy” and “cracker,” according to a criminal complaint.


  Genesis Gittens, 20, was charged with a hate crime after attacking a 28-year-old man on the L train in Manhattan on Sunday. Christopher Sadowski Genesis Gittens, 20, was charged with a hate crime after attacking a 28-year-old man on the L train in Manhattan on Sunday. Christopher Sadowski

The repeated blows left the commuter with a bloody nose, although he refused medical attention, police said.

Gittens was arrested less than an hour later and charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime, according to the complaint.

She pleaded not guilty during her arraignment and was released, court records show. 

In a separate incident around 9 a.m. Sunday, an apparently homeless person attacked a 35-year-old on-duty MTA cleaner from behind inside the 34th Street-Hudson Yards No. 7 train station and repeatedly punched him in the back of the head, cops said. 

While the worker was on the ground, the menace — who had no shoes on — repeatedly struck him with his feet, cops and sources said. 

The brute, who wore all gray and carried a blue blanket, took off after the attack and had not been caught by Monday, sources said. 

The worker refused medical attention at the scene.

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