Former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson were attacked by a trio of young suspects while walking their dog on the Upper East Side Friday night, his spokesperson and law enforcement sources said.
Paterson, 70, and his wife’s 20-year-old son, Anthony Chester Sliwa, encountered the group of young men, possibly teens, climbing a fire escape on Second Avenue near East 96th Street shortly before 9 p.m., the sources said.
The pair told the youngsters to knock it off and were attacked by the suspects after walking away, according to sources.
Paterson’s spokesperson Sean Darcy confirmed in a statement to The Post that the group of suspects “had a previous interaction with [Paterson’s] stepson.”
“They both suffered some injuries but were able to fight off their attackers,” Darcy said of Paterson and his stepson.
The ex-governor, who is legally blind, sustained an injury to his head, while his stepson suffered a face wound, sources said. Sources said his stepson’s injury was more severe.
They were taken to NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center “as a precaution,” Darcy said, adding that a police report had been filed.
No arrests were made as of late Friday.
Paterson, who served as New York’s governor from 2008 to 2010, is married to Mary Paterson, the ex-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
Sliwa and his ex-wife Mary share one child, Anthony.
Following Paterson’s 2019 nuptials to Sliwa’s ex, the Guardian Angels founder had nothing but good things to say.
“I applauded it,” Sliwa had said. “Mary deciding to marry Gov. Paterson was great. He’s an outstanding stepfather to Anthony.”
Anthony was raised to be a chip off the old beret.
Back in 2016 The Post reported his father was taking his little cherub out on subway patrol with the Guardian Angels.
“He’s always had a natural instinct to be an Angel ever since he was little,” said Mary “K.C.” Gethings at the time of the then 12-year-old Anthony.
The Sliwa scion was raised to “see something, say something” – which was on full display Friday evening as he confronted the trio of hooligans.
“My favorite part is when we catch a criminal,” he told The Post at the time.
