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Some transit workers dealt a low blow to the MTA chief yesterday — calling out his TriBeCa home address during a board meeting that was streaming live on the Internet.

The union later staged a rally protesting the layoffs of hundreds of station agents at chairman Jay Walder’s building.

Irate TWU Local 100 members fumed at the board meeting the MTA managers were “thugs” and “always making excuses.”

“Maybe if you look into the MTA cutting off paying your rent, that’s one station agent that can keep their job for the year. You make enough money to pay your own rent,” said Elizabeth Lowe, who was handed a pink slip earlier this year.

Walder said he “didn’t take it as personal in any way” that the workers gave up his home address — adding that the “vast majority of our workforce is hard-working.”

The MTA wants to cut 475 station agents in an effort to save $21 million of a $400 million budget hole for 2010.

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