Hate crime bogus: cops

Blood on the platform showed a man was assaulted on the subway in Tribeca — but how the Sunday evening incident really went down differs from original reports, cops say.

The initial account of the incident was that the man, 25, claimed two attackers yelled anti-gay slurs at him as they roughed him up on an uptown A train.

Because of the assault, some of the man’s blood spattered onto the edge of the subway platform (inset).

Medics took him to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Lower Manhattan, where he got eight stitches for a laceration on his head, said cops.

But on Monday, police said they doubted the man’s claim that his assault was a hate crime.

Witnesses claimed the man was the aggressor in the incident, said police. They described the man as drunk and belligerent, and say he spat on people.

Two passengers on the uptown A train tried to get him to stop, and subdued him at Chambers St. No gay slurs were directed at the man, cops say.

MTA bus catches fire in upper Manhattan

An empty MTA bus caught fire in upper Manhattan Monday afternoon.

The bus was operating as a shuttle for alternate service work on the No. 3 lines.

No passengers were on board when its engine burst into flames at around 3:30 p.m. according to the MTA. It stopped at Frederick Douglass Blvd. and W. 146th St., and firefighters were on the scene to extinguish the flames. No injuries were reported. The bus is an Orion VII model that came into service in 2003. It’s among the oldest buses the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has in service. The agency retired the last of its 20-year-old, diesel-burning Rapid Transit Series buses earlier this month.