ABC News White House Correspondent Tara Palmeri tweeted about the 2013 incident on Friday following Baldwin's arrest

ABC News White House Correspondent Tara Palmeri rehased the moment Alec Baldwin told her 'I hope you choke to death' while she was out on assignment for the New York Post in 2013.

Palmeri's tweet on Friday came just hours after the 60-year-old actor was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly punching a man during a fight over a parking spot near his home in New York City.

'Alec Baldwin also told me "I hope you choke to death" when I was on assignment, staking out his house,' she said in the tweet.

She was reacting to a tweet by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who wrote: 'Baldwin was the first person I ever experienced being blocked by on Twitter, after he used his account with hundreds of thousands of followers to berate me for...writing about a fundraiser he’d hosted in a way he didn’t find satisfactory.'

Palmeri claimed that Baldwin shouted abuse at her early in 2013 as she tried to ask him questions about his wife Hilaria's lawsuit involving her work as a yoga instructor.

'Alec Baldwin also told me "I hope you choke to death" when I was on assignment, staking out his house,' she said in the tweet

The New York Post claims that the comments were recorded on Ms Palmeri’s tape recorder and that the tape had been sent to police for investigation.

Baldwin admitted to making the comments but claimed that it wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

Hours after Baldwin was taken into the New York Police Department's 6th Precinct near his Greenwich Village home on Friday, he was released and returned to his penthouse. The 60-year-old actor took to Twitter to clear his name, claiming he never threw any punches.

'Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today’s story. However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much,' he wrote Friday evening.

'I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of click bait entertainment. Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn’t make the statements true,' he added.

Palmeri's tweet was in response to one from the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, who went into detail about a time when she and Baldwin had an unpleasant exchange

An eye witness said Baldwin punched Wojciech Cieszkowski, 49, of Pearl River in a dispute over a parking spot on Friday

The incident unfolded at a parking spot on E. 10th St near the intersection with University Place, a block east of Fifth Avenue at 1.30pm.

Sources say one of Baldwin's family members was holding the spot when Wojciech Cieszkowski, 49, of Pearl River, New York, driving a black Saab station wagon pulled into the spot, according to Page Six.

Baldwin lives in a multi-million dollar penthouse on the same street with his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, and their four young children.

Following his release from the New York Police Department's 6th Precinct after a parking dispute, Alec Baldwin took to Twitter to clear his name claiming he never punched anyone

He said: 'The assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false. I wanted to go on the record stating as much'

The two men got into an argument and when Cieszkowski headed to the meter to pay, Baldwin allegedly bolted up to him and punched him. Police said the two pushed each other before Baldwin got aggressive.

A witness told DailyMail.com that Baldwin yelled, 'F*** off' during the fight.

'He was minding his business and all of a sudden, [Baldwin] just punched him,' the witness said.

Baldwin was arrested and charged with assault in the third degree, which is a misdemeanor, and harassment, police told DailyMail.com.