Granny: Be nice to my Gotti, judge

A MENTALLY disabled Pratt Institute senior lost her fingers in a gruesome woodworking accident after the school barred her from bringing her service dog on campus, a lawsuit says.

Brittany Hostman, who suffers from paralyzing panic attacks and bipolar disorder, relies on Blizzard, her bichon frise, to help her stave off the seizure-like episodes.

But in April 2016, Pratt officials told her the tiny pooch had bitten someone and was no longer allowed on the school’s grounds in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

A shocked Hostman disputed the claim, but the university wouldn’t budge.

“He’s literally on a 3-foot leash,” Hostman said. “And he weighs 25 pounds.”

Hostman was certain that the school was targeting her because she had complained days earlier about an “inclusivity meeting” that was held on the second floor of a building with no elevator.

The Virginia native was in a wheelchair at the time, dealing with swelling in her legs.

Terrified of attending classes without Blizzard, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights office, the suit says.

Hostman, a ceramics major, ultimately agreed to use Skype to listen in to her lectures and complete her hands-on work at private, off-campus studios where she could bring her dog.

“I wasn’t willing to take the risk of going to my classes and possibly having an episode and him not being there,” Hostman said.

She soon learned that the facility, Makeville Studio in Gowanus, offered far less training and oversight than the studios on campus.

Hostman knew the machines at Pratt well. At the on-campus workshops, at least three monitors kept an eye on the students. At Makeville, Hostman said, there was only one.

“The environment was more like, ‘There’s the machine, go use it,’” she said.

Hostman was working on a wood-cutting machine at the studio on March 31 when the device malfunctioned and pulverized her left index and middle fingers, the suit says.

The machine, a Powermatic 60HH jointer, also claimed a chunk of her ring finger.

“My fingers got eaten by the spinning teeth,” said Hostman, now 22. “There was blood everywhere and chunks of finger on the new jacket my mom bought me for Christmas.”

Hostman’s suit, filed Tuesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, targets Pratt, Makeville Studio and the maker of the equipment, JPW Industries.

“Whereas the woodworking studio and machine manufacturer bear some liability here, Pratt set the wheels in motion,” said Hostman’s lawyer, Joshua Gropper.

“Pratt placing Ms. Hostman at a woodworking studio without any supervision led directly to her injuries.”

Pratt didn’t return requests for comment. Makeville Studio and JPW Industries also didn’t return requests for comment.

Despite her grievous injuries, Hostman managed to graduate with a 3.7 GPA.

She had a job lined up teaching pottery at a recreational center in Norfolk, Va.

But her injury has forced her to give up the gig and ponder a future without ever being able to pursue her passion.

“I really miss making pottery,” said Hostman, who is living with her grandmother in Virginia Beach and home-schooling a special-needs boy. “And I don’t have money for prosthetics.” GO EASY, judge!

A mob scion’s step-grandmother is begging a Brooklyn federal judge to give the young man the minimum sentence so he won’t become a hardened con.

John J. Gotti, who shares a name with his late, Gambino boss grandfather, is up for sentencing on an arson charge. And when that happens, Elyse Lottier hopes the 24-year-old won’t get the book thrown at him.

Lottier, 63, was the stepmom of Tricia Gotti — John J. Gotti’s mom — until 2000. Despite being divorced from Tricia’s father for 17 years, she told Judge Allyne Ross that she loves John as if he were her “own flesh and blood.”

“I think John knows what he did was wrong and understands that what he did only got him to where he is. I think he knows, now, that some things need to change,” Lottier wrote to the judge.

In an interview with the Daily News, Lotte, 63, of Long Island City, called John “a good boy who got himself into some trouble” and was worried whether “having the last name Gotti could work against him.”

Gotti faces from five to 20 years in prison after admitting in June that he was the 2012 getaway driver on a tough guy task to torch a Queens car whose driver had cut off the “Goodfellas” gangster Vinny Asaro in traffic.