The widow of a Big Apple cabbie who was mugged by one of Zohran Mamdani’s newly named advisers and his crew nearly three decades ago was appalled by the lefty mayor-elect’s decision Tuesday.

“Are you crazy?” the Bronx woman, whose husband Joseph Eziri died last year, said when she learned that Mamdani had tapped convict-turned-activist Mysonne Linen to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee.

“It’s wrong,” the widow, who asked not to be named, told The Post. “Somebody that committed that kind of crime and then you make him an advisor on criminality?

“Please … To me, he is no good. Why do you give him a position like that?”

Linen, 49, was among 400 New Yorkers officially appointed last month to the 20-member criminal justice panel, one of 17 committees picked to help the democratic socialist Queens assemblyman make the transition to New York City mayor.

But the Bronx native, a former promising aspiring rapper, landed on the wrong end of the legal system when he was sent to state prison in 1999 for seven years for being part of a vicious armed robbery crew, according to reports.

Bronx prosecutors said the crew pulled off the June 8, 1997, robbery of Eziri, and the March 31, 1998, gunpoint theft of fellow cabbie Francisco Monsanto, The New York Daily News reported at the time.

Eziri died from a heart attack last year, and his wife said he never shook the trauma of the robbery.

“My husband went to work that evening,” she recalled. “Later in the night he called me, telling me that a guy that he picked up – I think it was on Ogden Avenue – took his money, and then he used a knife …”

Asked how Eziri would feel about Linen’s new gig, the shocked woman said she was pretty sure her late hubby wouldn’t be too thrilled.

“He would protest against it, that’s for sure,” she said. “I know my husband.

“It’s very very clear – that’s not a job for him,” she added. “Let him advise people on how not to be criminals – not advise the mayor on criminality.” 

Mamdani, who will be sworn in as mayor next month, defended Linen’s appointment earlier Tuesday.

“We put together a team of more than 400 New Yorkers who are on 17 different committees, and these are New Yorkers who bring with them both fluency of the policies and politics of the city, the places that they’ve succeeded the places that they’ failed,” he said during a press availability in Lower Manhattan.

“And we will take all of their experiences and their analysis into account as we build a city for each and every person.” 

Linen, who had faced up to 25 years behind bars, continued to deny he was involved in the muggings and rebranded himself as a community activist following his release from state prison.

He spent years volunteering as a so-called violence interrupter and also founded Rising Kings, a non-profit group that teaches classes to inmates at Rikers Island. 

Linen also wasn’t the only controversial choice for Mamdani’s transition team committees.

Others include black nationalist Lumumba Bandele, the head of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement who has rallied behind cop killers Assata Shakur and Herman Bell, and former Maryland Department of Juvenile Services boss Vincent Schiraldi, who resigned under pressure amid claims of shoddy oversight and contract mismanagement at the agency.

Retired NYPD Chief of Department John Chell said Monday that Linen’s appointment was typical of the lefty incoming mayor.

“It’s just another appointed adviser that has a questionable past, which is in line with some of his other recent appointees who were anti-police and establishment,” Chell told The Post.

“The optics and reality here point to a potential erosion of public safety in New York City.”

— Additional reporting by Hannah Fierick