Acid attack on S.I.

A DERANGED attacker sprayed a woman in the face with a caustic substance in Staten Island Monday morning, yelling “Do you have the time now, b----?” police sources said.

The 52-year-old victim was walking along Woodrow Road by Carlton Blvd. in Arden Heights, when another woman approached her from behind at about 11:30 a.m.

“I didn’t know the person,” said victim Lizzie Dunn. “She asked me for cigarette, and I told her no. She then asked for money, and I told her no and sorry.”

The woman then paused for a few seconds and yelled, “I bet you don’t have the time, either!”

That’s when the woman grabbed Dunn (photo) by the shoulder, spun her around, sprayed her in the face and took off.“She grabbed me from the hood of my coat and sprayed me with something that was very painful,” Dunn said.

Dunn, who was walking from her home to a bus stop before the attack, stumbled into Rocco’s Deli on Woodrow Road, and asked someone to call 911.

“There was like nine cops here, no joke, and then the ambulance, of course,” said a relative of the deli’s owner, who didn’t give her name.

Medics rushed Dunn to Staten Island University Hospital, where she was treated for third-degree burns to her face, neck and left hand, she said.

The doctors still don’t know what kind of liquid hit her, Dunn said.

“They’re trying to figure it out. Some sort of acid,” she said. And she’s not sure if her injuries will scar over.

At first, Dunn thought the attacker looked like a black man wearing an oversized coat, but she sounded like a woman, Dunn said.

The attacker was about 5-feet-2 and 140 pounds, she said.

She said she doesn’t know what she’d say to her attacker. “(I) haven’t even processed what happened to me,” Dunn said.

Cops are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.