A homeless man is facing multiple counts of felony hate-crime assault in as many as seven random attacks on pedestrians in lower Manhattan, officials said Saturday.

Todd Lyons, 33, apparently didn’t care if his victims were young or old, male or female — so long as they were white, sources alleged to The Post.

He used his fists, or random found objects — including a brick and wood from a broken chair — to strike his victims, sometimes knocking them to the ground and leaving them bloody, police said.

“Get off the street, honky, you ­f–king honky, you don’t belong here,” Lyons, who is black, allegedly screamed at a 58-year-old man he punched in the face in Chelsea two weeks ago, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Lyons was awaiting arraignment on three of the attacks Saturday night, a day after his arrest.

Sources said that the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating if he is also linked to four other incidents.

“I knew something was off,” ­vocational counselor Gregory Magloire, 32, said of Lyons, whom he fingered for cops.

Magloire works at Barbour Hotel, a 95-unit, supportive-housing facility for the homeless where Lyons was admitted in mid-August, in the midst of the assault spree.

“Throughout the intake I thought he was someone who may be going through something, maybe mentally,” said Magloire. “He wasn’t focused. He kept dozing off. he wasn’t looking at me face-to-face.”

Lyons often walked around shirtless — and when police released a video of a shirtless attacker, “I knew it was him,” said Magloire.

“Wow,” he remembered thinking. “Everybody is looking for this man, while he spent half the day in my office.”

The first attack took place on Aug. 9 at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street, when a man, 56, was shoved to the ground from behind.



Five days later, Lyons allegedly punched a 53-year-old woman in the face at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street, then minutes later slugged a 64-year-old woman in the neck with a wooden stick at Eighth and Greenwich avenues.

He has also been linked to — but not charged with — an incident that same day, in which a ­20-year-old woman was struck from behind with a brick at Wooster and Canal streets.

The other suspected assaults happened Aug. 16.

A 25-year-old woman was attacked at 1:30 that afternoon in front of 111 Fifth Avel, and a 72-year-old man was attacked soon afterward at Union Square East and 15th St.

The most recent suspected assault was 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, when a 64-year-old woman was attacked at Seventh Ave. and 14th St.

Additional reporting by Laura Italiano