Hasidic fam attacked in Battery Park

A late afternoon stroll in lower Manhattan ended in blood and stitches for a traditionally dressed young Hasidic couple and their baby when they were attacked by a convicted criminal out of prison for less than two months, police said Thursday.

The victims were treated at the scene by medics and were not badly hurt.

“We were just having a walk in the park,” said the woman, who wore a bandage over her lip to cover her stitches. She asked not to be named as she recounted the attack, which happened along State St. next to Battery Park around 5:50 p.m. Wednesday.

The umbrella-toting attacker walked past the victims — a man and woman, both 22, and their 13-month-old baby in a stroller. He was talking to himself and acting strangely, and his victims said they spotted him from afar.

“He must’ve walked behind us,” the woman said.

Moments later, the suspect reversed course.

“While we were going to sit down in the park, he came up behind me and attacked me first,” the woman said. “Then my husband, then he went for our baby.”

Her husband fought the attacker as she got clear with their baby, she recounted.

Her husband pulled up his longsleeve shirt to show off a bandage on his elbow, which he used to push the blade-wielding assailant away. “While I was fighting him I managed to bend the knife down,” he said.

The victims ran off as the assailant, who was yelling and screaming throughout the incident, gave chase.

The man was also slashed on the head. His wife was slashed on her lips, and the baby was cut on the chin.

Darryl Jones, 30, was nabbed a short time later and charged with assault, weapon possession and drug possession for K-2 found on him, police said. The knife was recovered in a garbage can near the scene.

Jones has 12 previous seven of them sealed.

His record includes a 2011 beatdown of a 50-year-old man inside the suspect’s Morningside Heights building. Police said he and another man tried to rob the victim and badly beat him, busting his eye socket and three ribs.

Jones was later convicted of attempted murder and attempted assault. arrests,