'MESSIAH' - NARA
'Jesus returns- but is hauled off to hosp
The second coming of this “Jesus” was a brief one.
A 25-year-old man who calls himself Son of God Lord Saviour Jesus Christ was removed from Washington Square Park on Sunday morning — less than 12 hours after he was busted there following a nude brawl with two other men inside the park’s fountain.
Matthew Mishefski, who had been living in the landmark since last month (inset), was taken into custody shortly after 9 a.m. and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the FDNY on Sunday.
“He won’t talk to anyone unless they call him Jesus Christ Lord Savior,” Joseph Puleo of District Council 37, the union representing the city’s Parks Enforcement Patrol, told The Post.
Mishefski had been at the Manhattan hospital just hours earlier, after police nabbed him following an alleged naked brawl with two other men and sent him to Mount Sinai in an ambulance shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. Police said there was no record of charges filed in that case.
But on Sunday, Mishefski strolled back to the fountain, took off his clothes once again and jumped over a barricade and back into the fountain, which had been cleared of his collection of odds and ends the night before, according to police.
“He’s back in the fountain and he decided to take it off and walk around naked again,” said neighborhood resident Gerry DeWitt, 75.
“He starts doing nasty stuff with his hands, touching himself. That kid needs help,” DeWitt continued.
“He wasn’t saying anything and the cops were good with him, easy.
They didn’t rough him up or anything. He’ll be back tomorrow.”
Mishefski had become a curiosity at Washington Square Park since he moved into the drained fountain there last month.
He had amassed an assortment of furniture at the site — including a pink recliner, chairs, a table and a beach umbrella — and rebuffed repeated pleas from police, Parks Department employees and homeless outreach workers who urged him to find safer digs.
On Friday he covered himself with red paint and sat in front of a “shrine” he built inside the fountain.
On Saturday, things got a bit sticky when a rain shower moved in and Mishefski decided to soak it in stark naked.
But it took the naked melee later that day to get cops to take him away.
Regardless, he was back park Sunday.
Eyewitnesses told The Post that before cops arrived Mishefski walked around the fountain naked, burning a plastic McDonald’s cup with a cigarette lighter while incredulous parkgoers looked on.
When cops showed up, Mishefski was wrapped in a towel, handcuffed and walked over to a grassy area nearby to await an ambulance.
Officials at Mount Sinai would not comment Sunday.
Mishefski has told The Post that he is autistic and hails from Pennsylvania. Attempts to reach his family have been unsuccessful.