Face-spray shock for subway girl

A 10-YEAR-OLD girl and a tourist friend were peppersprayed — for taking a picture of a man’s bizarre picnic on the subway.

“It felt like burning,” young Samantha Stapaj, who was sprayed on her forehead, said at her Upper East Side home Monday.

The incident happened at about 12:15 p.m. Saturday at the Lexington Ave.-E. 53rd St. station in Midtown.

Samantha, her mom, Mariana Stapaj, 44, and family friend Maria Antoniv, an artist from Toronto, were about to get off the train to transfer to the uptown No. 6 when they saw a man, later identified as Dasheen Simpkins, 24, in the last car with a woman and infant.

“They were having a picnic,” the mom said. “They had two beach chairs. They had an open cooler — two big coolers on wheels.”

Antoniv snapped a picture of the duo — and Simpkins snapped, sources said.

He got up, and without saying anything, peppersprayed Samantha and Antoniv, sources said.

Police were summoned and Simpkins, who stayed on the train, was arrested at the 46th St.-Broadway station in Queens.