He is not an animal!

“Shoeless” bum Jeffrey Hillman did his best “Elephant Man” impression yesterday — emerging from his Bronx apartment building with his face covered by a yellow T-shirt that had a small peephole.

“You need to cut this s–t out. This is driving me crazy,” said Hillman, who was clad in all-black threads and wearing the same Skechers boots a kindhearted cop had bought him in November.

“Get out of my sight,” he barked before chucking a Welch’s grape-juice glass bottle that shattered on the street.

When asked about the boots, Hillman only shook his head.

The Post revealed Tuesday that Hillman lives in a Bronx apartment while continuing to panhandle as if he were homeless — and he was spotted on the subway counting a wad of bills over the weekend.

The Army veteran played dumb about his handwritten “Homeless” sign.

“I found that on the street,” he said. “Whether I wear a sign or I don’t, am I committing a crime?”

Officer Lawrence DePrimo — who gave Hillman the boots — said this week nothing will tarnish the moment he shared with Hillman in November.

“At the end of the day, it’s something I did to help another human being,” he said.