Stalked by perv on UWS

Gal’s scary ordeal

A Manhattan woman was stalked by a perv who exposed himself to her on a busy Upper West Side street — proof, she says, that “the city is getting worse and worse.”

“There were so many things that went through my head of what could have happened,” Adrienne Leon, 34, told The Post of the June 29 encounter. “It’s scary, because he’s still out there.”

Leon was waiting to pick up a meal at Tacombi, a taqueria on Amsterdam Avenue near West 78th Street, at 7:30 p.m. when she realized a stranger had followed her — and was fondling himself just two yards behind her.

“I noticed this man follow me from the corner of 78th Street and Amsterdam. Then when I moved away, he moved closer to me,” said Leon, who edged toward a doorman building on 78th Street for safety.

The man, who had a long beard, “was getting closer to me and looked as if he was fondling himself behind the mailbox across the building and he kept looking at me.”

Leon walked just inside the doorman building’s entrance, but felt someone behind her.

“As soon as I turned around, the man followed me into the doorway and was there with his penis in his hand and said to me, ‘Hey, I just want to talk to you. I think you’re beautiful,’ ” she recalled.

“I didn’t want to scream because I didn’t want him to hurt me with a gun or knife. I probably should have screamed, but I froze.”

Leon darted out of the doorway and into Tacombi, where she called 911.

The episode took less than three minutes, but “it felt like an hour,” Leon said.

When police didn’t show up after 15 minutes, Leon went to the nearby 20th Precinct station house to report the incident — and emerged to find the man still in the area, walking with his hands in his pants, stealing money from a homeless man’s cup and peering into parked cars, she said.

Leon said she recorded him but “even with video evidence and a strong description, all I could do was file a complaint and hope the predator didn’t find another woman to do serious harm to.”

Brendan Sweeney, the doorman on duty at the West 78th Street building, said he saw the man touching himself and “cornering women.”

“I saw him acting weird, so I kept watching to see what would happen, and I saw the guy approach her,” he said.

The NYPD confirmed the incident was reported but said no arrests had been made.