The daughter of a 60-year-old woman who was beaten in a disturbing, caught-on-camera assault in Harlem said she’s angry that nobody came to help her defenseless mom — as cops identified her alleged attacker as a 43-year-old man with at least nine prior arrests.

Laurell Reynolds, 60, of the Bronx was walking through the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station at about 3:30 a.m. Friday when Norton Blake allegedly pummeled her with a cane, according to NYPD officials and a disturbing two-minute recording of the crime.

Nobody stepped in to help Reynolds — even as the creep struck her so hard and so often that her wooden cane shattered.

“I’m hurt — it hurts,” her daughter, Lashanne Reese, 41, of the Bronx, told The Post on Tuesday. “That man could’ve killed my mother … You all did nothing. I have a problem with that.”

Reese, who works at Crisis Management System/Bronx Community Justice Center, said her mom’s attacker needs to go to jail and that he shouldn’t have been on the streets in the first place.

“He needs help — no, he shouldn’t be on the street,” she said as she broke down in tears. “He just attacked my mother and beat her with a cane. He don’t belong on the street.”

NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, who named Blake as the suspect during an unrelated press conference Tuesday, said cops were nearing an arrest.

“We’re looking for him, and I’m pretty confident that in short order, he will be arrested and charged for that assault on that female,” Kemper told reporters.

The suspect and Reynolds had engaged in some kind of argument as the victim walked up the subway station steps, Kemper said.

“A witness [said] they were arguing over something that might have dropped,” Kemper said, adding that it wasn’t clear if the two knew each other. “He might have been helping her carry something up the steps and something might have dropped, causing them to argue.”

The dispute quickly spiraled into a physical assault, with Blake allegedly hitting Reynolds more than 50 times in the head, stomach, leg, arms, back and hands as she fell to the ground.

Blake has at least nine prior arrests for crimes such as drug possession, assault, trespassing, resisting arrest, tampering with evidence and possessing stolen property dating back to 2002, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Both of his assaults were for attacks on cops — he allegedly fought an officer while resisting arrest in 2017 and punched an off-duty cop in the face in 2003, sources said.

In the more recent of the two, Blake was walking into the Nos. 2 and 3 subway station at 135th Street through the exit gate, without paying his fare, when cops confronted him on March 10, 2017, according to a criminal complaint and police sources.

“I’m not going anywhere,” he said, according to the sources.

When police tried to cuff him, Blake allegedly pushed one of the cops to the ground. He pleaded guilty five days later to one count of third-degree assault and was sentenced to 45 days behind bars, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.

Blake was also accused of punching an off-duty officer in the face as he tried to help his on-duty colleagues back in September of 2003, cops said.

His most recent bust was in July of 2019 for criminal possession of a controlled substance, cops and sources said.

The address he gave police at the time of that arrest is listed as the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. It’s unclear whether he was ever a patient there.

Blake was also nabbed in February of 2017 for criminal trespass, and in January of 2015 for possession of a bent MetroCard, the sources said.

He was busted in June of 2014 for tampering with physical evidence, and in April of the same year for resisting arrest, according to the sources.

He has another drug-related bust from 2007, and a June 2002 rap for criminal possession of marijuana.

Reese said her mom had left her home in the Bronx to go home and change, then was supposed to return for a party Reese was having.

She had been wondering why her mom never made it back.

“Now I know,” she said Tuesday.

“We’re supposed to be a loving, caring community. It’s unity in community — if we put unity in, we get a whole community,” Reese said.

“For them not to do that … this is why it’s going on everywhere,” she continued. “Everywhere this is happening because there is no unity in our community.”

Reese said she wasn’t sure why her mom went to Harlem, where she once lived.

She’s tried to talk her mom out of taking the train at night. But it hasn’t taken.

“She’s stubborn,” Reese said. “You know older people get a little stubborn.”

Additional reporting by Joe Marino