Taj Patterson (above, after the beating) was left permanently blind in his right eye after being attacked in December 2013

Two Hasidic men who admitted to brutally beating a gay black man until he was blinded in one eye were sentenced to just 150 hours of community service – but are trying to get out of doing it in a ‘culturally diverse’ neighborhood.

Fashion student Taj Patterson was left permanently blind in his right eye after being beaten by a group of Hasidic men as he walked down the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in December 2013.

Pinchas Braver, 22, and Abraham Winkler, 42, who were part of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish patrol group, were charged with gang hate crime and facing up to 25 years in prison, the New York Post reported.

But instead, they pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in a plea deal that meant they avoided jail in exchange for three years of probation, paying $1,400 restitution and performing the 150 hours of community service in a ‘culturally diverse’ placement.

Two others had their cases dropped, but Mayer Herkovic, will go on trial next week.

But the men told the court last week that they wanted to do the community service at Chai Lifeline, a group that works with Jewish children with life-threatening illness.

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Pinchas Braver (right) and Abraham Winkler (left) were sentenced to just 150 hours of community service after admitted taking part in beating a black gay man - but are now trying to avoid performing it in a 'culturally diverse' placement

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun delayed sentencing Braver and Winkler for a week so they could find another satisfactory placement – but they still haven’t.

Braver’s attorney Robert LaRusso said the problem isn’t finding an organization, it’s meeting the criteria of ‘culturally diverse’ that prosecutors have suggested.

‘It’s not a problem – it’s just being able to satisfy the prosecutor that the agency that we are asking the community service to be performed is satisfactory to them,’ LaRusso said, according to the New York Daily News.

Now, Justice Chun has informed Braver and Winkler that they have 30 days to find another placement or the Department of Probation will place them in a program.

He also gave them an extension to pay the restitution, the Daily News reports.

Patterson has said he was confronted by the group of at least 12 Hasidic men as he headed to his Fort Greene home after a night out.

He said the men beat him while shouting homophobic slurs in the early hours of December 1, 2013.

He was so viciously beaten that his orbital socket was broken and his retina was torn, leaving his permanently blind in one eye.

As others cheered, one attacker allegedly kicked him as he lay on the ground, shouting: 'Stay down, f****t, stay the f*** down.’

Pinchas Braver (above) waits for the elevator at Brooklyn Supreme Court in October

Braver (pictured with a family member) was part of an ultra-Orthdox patrol group

Patterson later said: 'I was alone. I was an easy target. I'm black. I'm gay, a whole slew of reasons.'

He has filed a lawsuit against the city and the NYPD, alleging that Shomrim, the volunteer patrol group, has been given ‘preferential treatment’ for years.

The self-styled neighborhood protection outfit, set up in Haredi communities throughout the United States to help combat crime. Volunteers can make citizens' arrests only.

But the police have said they have acted against acts of vigilantism.

Shortly after the arrests in 2013, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement: 'These indictments send a clear message that acts of vigilantism are unacceptable and cannot be condoned by the NYPD.'