‘F- -k you! Pay me!': Times Square’s new welcome wagon
He’s a sign of the times.
A foul-mouthed panhandler with a message of hate is the new welcome wagon for visitors to the Crossroads of the World.
Daniel Kimery, 36, greeted tourists on Wednesday with a hand-lettered sign saying: “F–k You!!! Pay Me!!!!!!! I need money 4 Drugz & Hoez & Weaponz Mother F–kerz!”
Kimery also drew frightened stares by cursing and ranting at passers-by while wearing a sleeveless green T-shirt promoting the “Occupy” movement.
He waged his abusive campaign just steps from the NYPD’s Times Square substation at 43rd Street and Broadway.
“The entire situation just wasn’t right. I could tell something was off with that bum in the green shirt from the second I saw him,” said tourist Robb Hueston, 37, of Dallas, who’s in town with his wife and two kids. “I have small children, and my kids don’t need to be reading that kind of offensive garbage.”
Law enforcement sources said Kimery hails from Hot Springs, Ark., and has been busted four times in the Big Apple since July 2013, when he was accused of breaking a restroom door inside Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. He allegedly screamed “f–king n—ers” at people there as he was hauled out of the landmark house of worship.
Kimery — who also goes by the name “Daniel Damascus” — has also been busted for turnstile-jumping, illegally sleeping on the Riverpark restaurant’s terrace and having an open container of beer in Tribeca, sources said.
There was an open warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear in court on the latter charge, sources said.
Tourist Gina Monticelli, 47, of Lansing, Mich., said Kimery “belongs in a mental hospital.”
“It sickens me knowing people like this are standing around with signs like that when families are here,” said Monticelli, who was with her husband and two kids.
“I’ve read stories about those Occupy people in the news. It’s sad, but that’s the kind of person their group attracts.”
New Yorker Helen Tse, 31, who works in a Times Square store, said Kimery was giving tourists “a bad impression of New York.”
“It’s bad enough that the people in costumes are conning people out of money and groping their kids,” she said.
Kimery maintains several social-media accounts on which he promotes various Occupy, Anonymous and anti-cop groups.
For education, he listed “Studied Standing up to The Pigs at Occupy Wall St.”
On June 18, he tweeted a photo of people sleeping outside Trinity Church, writing: “This is where I live now. Come join The Party at #OccupyTrinity!”
But on Monday, Kimery wrote, “I will be suspending my #OccupyTrinity protest indefinitely” and told friends to “come find me in Times Square.”
In addition to the green Occupy T-shirt he wore Wednesday, Kimery had a bandanna tied around his neck ready to be pulled up over his face — like anarchists who ran amok through the city in last year’s anti-cop protests.
Kimery was busted Wednesday and charged with criminal mischief for allegedly breaking camera equipment used by a Post photographer who snapped pictures of him. “I’m going to find you. I know a lot of people on the streets. I can’t wait to f–k you up,” he threatened the shutterbug.
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