STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro is accused of cursing at one of his neighbors in Fort Wadsworth because he couldn't drive past him while a film crew blocked their street.

"You don't know who you're f--- with! I will pull your permit so fast!" Molinaro yelled, according to Paul Bruno, 35, a DJ and podcaster who lives down the block from the borough president on Lyman Avenue.

Paul Bruno says Borough President James P. Molinaro cursed him when he couldn't drive past him because a film crew was blocking their street.

The episode happened at about 6:45 p.m. Friday, while a film crew was shooting a scene for "The Last Five Years" nearby, Bruno said.

The film is an adaptation of a musical by the same name about a failing marriage.

Bruno, who has nothing to do with the film, was heading home, when a production assistant stopped his car on Lyman near Tompkins Avenue, and told him to wait before he could pull into his apartment building.

Molinaro pulled up in the opposite direction, driving a car with the license plate, "SI BP," and started arguing with the production assistant and motioning to Bruno, the DJ recalled.

"Eventually, he pulls up to me and yell "Hey smart ass! You're supposed to pull over. I had no clue what he was talking about since A) I was pulled over and B) he could drive around me easily.

"I believe he thought I was working on the movie as well because he then told me 'You don't know who you're f---with! I will pull your permit so fast!'"

After Bruno told him he lived on the block and was trying to get home, Molinaro pulled around him and drove off.

"He drove past me easily, which I knew he could, which is why I didn't understand why there was a problem in the first place. I wasn't blocking him at all," Bruno said, noting that he also head sirens during the encounter, though he wasn't sure where they came from.

On Sunday night, Molinaro offered his version of the encounter, and admitted getting "pissed off," but denied dropping any curse-words.

He said he was heading out, with his companion, Joan Cusack, as a passenger, when he came upon members of a film crew blocking traffic, even though the scene was shooting in a park a couple of blocks away.

"There was a couple of people working with them with earphones," he said. "I get in, and they got traffic blocked."

He said he told the production assistant, "You don't have a permit to block the street."

The borough president added, "I got no animosity about anybody who's trying to make a living, but why are you tying me up?"

Molinaro said he assumed Bruno was part of the production crew -- "I got pissed off. I'm not going to deny it," he said, noting that Bruno "could have pulled over." Molinaro added he didn't understand why they had stopped the other motorist to begin with.

"I didn't curse at him. I said something which may have been a little derogatory, but I didn't curse," Molinaro said.

Though they live on the same block, Bruno and Molinaro both said they'd never encountered the other.

Bruno said that Molinaro definitely cursed at him: "He's a liar. I don't remember everything he said verbatim, but when the borough president says "You don't know who you're f--- with" you tend to remember that. I'm pretty sure he dropped more than one f-bomb."

He called Molinaro a bully, stating, "I'm not just the Borough President's constituent but also his neighbor. However, his behavior was despicable regardless of who I am. No one deserves to be spoken to like that. You'd think an elected official wouldn't resort to profane bullying in response to a minor inconvenience. Unfortunately, it seems to be Mr. Molinaro's go-to tactic."

Molinaro, meanwhile, called the episode a "misunderstanding." He said that he likely wouldn't recognize Bruno if he saw him again, since the encounter lasted a few seconds.

"He knows where I live, so if he wants to come down and talk to me, I'm here," Molinaro said.

"I would tell the guy, look, it was a misunderstanding there," he said, reiterating that he thought Bruno was part of the film crew. "There's no big deal."