He’s not looking so tough now.

The octogenarian arrested in New York last week for the 1973 murder of two teenage girls in Virginia Beach struggled to stay upright as he appeared in court Wednesday before being sent back to Virginia in chains.

A frail, graying Ernest Broadnax, 80, clutched a cane with two shaking hands as he shuffled into Queens Criminal Court, where a judge officially handed him off to a pair of Virginia Beach cops for extradition.

Asked if he had anything to say to the families of his alleged victims as he was led away, the St. Albans resident said, “No, no, no, tell them to talk to my lawyer.”

Broadnax struggled to get up a few stairs as the officers took him out of the courthouse with his wrists cuffed and chained under his jacket — and he then took a tumble as he was trying to get into their gray Chevy Malibu.

The cops caught him before he hit the pavement.

Earlier during the brief hearing, Broadnax’s lawyer Peter Laumann reminded the cops that they were not to “ask him any questions at any time in transit.”

The attorney also requested that he continue to get unspecified medical care he’d been receiving — which the judge agreed to. Prosecutors wouldn’t explain what the treatment was for.

Broadnax was busted at his home last Monday for two counts of murder and one count of rape in the decades-old slaying of Lynn Seethaler and Janice Pietropola, two 19-year-olds from Pittsburgh who were vacationing in the ­resort town.

He allegedly climbed through the window of the motel cottage the friends were renting on their last night in the town in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 30, 1973.

Pietropola was raped, strangled and shot three times on the right side of the head — while Seethaler was strangled, shot in the cheek and the temple and slashed in the throat with a broken wine bottle.

After the original investigation went cold, Virginia Beach police said a “strong” lead surfaced in the case in the fall of 2018.

Sources previously told The Post the break in the case was DNA evidence that linked Broadnax to the crime.