Gay harass claim vs. big at River Cafe

TWO FORMER River Cafe employees claim they were subjected to homoerotic harassment by a manager at the landmark restaurant in Brooklyn Heights.

Peter Pape was a bartender and Jonathan Schenk a server until they were axed — they say — for complaining about their boss Luke Vossen’s creepy behavior.

Pape says shortly after he was hired in June 2015, Vossen allegedly told him that he had a “nice ass,” called him “sexy” and remarked, “Thank God you’re goodlooking because you’re an idiot,” according to the suit filed Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Vossen allegedly touched Pape’s buttocks and “intimate parts” on several occasions and asked him to sit on the boss’ lap in his office while they went over the work schedule, the suit says.

Pape, who like Schenk is heterosexual, hired a lawyer who fired off a letter to the River Cafe. Pape was demoted to server and then fired last December.

Schenk describes a similar hostile environment. Vossen allegedly made come-on comments, including, “I could do all kinds of things to you,”according to the suit.

Schenk was fired last November — he says as retaliation for complaining — although the reason given was for wearing a dirty shirt, the suit states.

The River Cafe had no comment. Reached on his cell phone, Vossen snapped, “I don’t know anything about it” and hung up. A 33-YEAR-OLD Queens man was sentenced Wednesday to 60 days in jail for brutally killing his girlfriend’s Chihuahua, Honey, in a fit of rage earlier this year.

Carlos Hernandez was silent as Queens Judge Deborah Stevens Modica handed down his sentence for killing the dog in January.

His ex-girlfriend Karam Belalcazar, 30, wept quietly in the courtroom as Assistant District Attorney Nicoletta Caferri read her emotional victim-impact statement. Belalcazar said she was too overwhelmed to read it herself.

“Honey was my little baby . . . so tiny,” she wrote. “Now that she is not here, my heart hurts. My life is not the same.”

Hernandez, of Jackson Heights, will also get four years of probation under a plea deal and he has to register as an animal abuser with the city Department of Health.

Cops said Hernandez pulled the little pooch out of Belalcazar’s arms during a fight in the Forest Hills apartment they shared and slammed the helpless animal to the floor.