A homeless man with a lengthy rap sheet pummeled two boys selling candy inside a Manhattan train station Wednesday night in a botched robbery, officials and police sources said.
The two kids — an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old — were hawking the sweets inside the Broadway-Lafayette B/D/F/M station at around 6:30 p.m. when Alvin Doris followed them and attempted to steal $40 from the younger boy before snatching a cell phone from the teenager, police said.
When the 16-year-old tried to get back his phone, Doris reportedly went ballistic — punching the teen multiple times in the face, according to cops.
Doris, 62, then threw the teen’s cell phone to the ground and walloped the 11-year-old in the face, fracturing his nose, officials said.
Police charged Doris with robbery, acting in a manner injurious to a child, assault and criminal mischief.
His last known address was at the Bowery Mission, a Lower Manhattan homeless shelter.
Police sources said he has nine prior arrests going back to 1994 — with many of them concentrated around Lower Manhattan.
Doris has been collared for assault on four separate occasions and was slapped with an arson charge for intentionally damaging a Lower Manhattan building by starting a fire, sources told The Post.
His last arrest for assault was in 2012, when he punched a 26-year-old woman in the face on the corner of Bowery and Prince Street.
Doris was awaiting arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday night.
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