Metro

Rivals swap slur claims in Qns. race

The Republican candidate in a Queens City Council race has accused his rival’s camp of filing a phony police report to gin up racial fears and increase turnout in next week’s election.

The charge from former prosecutor Dan Halloran’s campaign against Democrat Kevin Kim’s team came eight days after a police report was filed claiming that teens taunted Kim volunteers with ethnic slurs and threw a football at them as they posted signs in Bayside.

The alleged attack, to which there were no witnesses, claimed the teens were carrying pro-Halloran signs.

“The Dan Halloran campaign does not believe this alleged incident occurred,” said spokesman Steven Stites, encouraging the cops to investigate.

“It seems clear that the Kevin Kim campaign encouraged its volunteers to file this false report to play the race card — because Kevin Kim knows that his pro-developer, anti-neighborhood agenda is out of step with Northeast Queens.”

Kim spokesman Michael Tobman responded, “The Halloran campaign is proving that those who have nothing productive to talk about say only negative things about others. Our neighborhoods deserve better than this nastiness.”