Hipster’s a ‘hater’
Real-estate agent’s racist rant at club
A hipster Brooklyn real-estate agent was caught on video spewing racist vitriol at a black bouncer outside a trendy Bushwick bar over the weekend.
Chris Giardina, 29, who is white, is seen unleashing a string of epithets — including the N-word — at the bouncer and another man outside the Wyckoff Avenue performance space The House of Yes early Friday morning.
“Touch me again, you f--king n----r,” Boston-area native Giardina shouts at the bouncer, the cellphone video shows.
Then Giardina turns to the man filming the incident and shouts a slur against Latinos: “Yeah, I said it ’ cause he’s punching me, you f--king sp-c.”
Giardina appears to be on his phone trying to get police to come arrest the doorman, who Giardina claims hit him after he exited through the wrong door of club.
“Get a cop here now or I’m going to end up burying this black guy,” Giardina yells into his phone.
“I will bury you,” he repeatedly shouts at the bouncer. “You hit me in the face like a dirty, f--king black person. You’ll lose your job and you’ll lose your house. Trust me.
“What is this, Harlem?” adds Giardina, a real-estate agent for Williamsburg apartment brokers MySpace NYC.
Not for long, though. MySpace NYC fired Giardina over the incident, according to principal broker Shawn Mullahy, who told The Post: “I was very disappointed in the video, to say the least. I was embarrassed and saddened by it. It’s not in line with the company culture or values.”
The man filming appears to try to de-escalate the situation, even as Giardina targets him with slurs.
Reached by phone Sunday, Giardina claimed he is not a racist — because someone else used slurs first, although he didn’t elaborate.
“The word that I used, that I’m embarrassed by using, was being thrown around the entire time. It was already in the air,” he told The Post. “It doesn’t make me a racist, it makes me an idiot.”
Giardina admitted he was drunk at the time, and claimed a sixminute video on Reddit was “manipulated” so he’d look bad.
He also claimed that other bar patrons backed his behavior.
“The crowd did not intervene, did not step in, did not jump me for a reason,” he said. “They were literally on my side.”
He added, “It’s not like I’m at a Starbucks drive-thru and I start going off on people and using racist slurs. This was a fight. It got out of hand. And I should’ve walked away in retrospect.
“The fact that I knew there was a video on me, I should’ve walked away.”
The House of Yes could not immediately be reached.