Pitbull mob attorney Bruce Cutler blamed his steakhouse Raging Bull routine last month on the stress of living in the frenzied Big Apple.
“It’s hard for me living in Manhattan,” he told reporters after being sentenced to anger management Wednesday for the dust-up in the Porterhouse restaurant in Columbus Circle.
“I don’t want to live in Manhattan. It’s a pressure cooker. I can’t handle that.”
Cutler clocked a rowdy diner at the tony Midtown steakhouse last month for being too loud. He said he’d benefit from moving to a calmer borough — like Brooklyn.
“I’d like to live in one of those new neighborhoods [in Brooklyn],” he said. “I can ride a bike and just walk around.”
A judge ordered Cutler — who famously repped former Gambino boss John “Dapper Don” Gotti in a string of 1980s trials — to enroll in a one-hour anger management class at his arraignment Wednesday in Midtown Community Court, an alternative sentencing court.
If the hothead keeps his nose clean for six months the misdemeanor charge will be dismissed.
Cutler, 65, said it was humbling to be in court as a defendant.
“A real man should be able to control himself,” said the unusually contrite lawyer. “You must bite your lip and leave it be … It’s unhealthy and it’s unlawful and it’s foolish.”
He added, “My fighting days are over. The only fighting I’m going to do is in court.”
The altercation erupted on Nov. 7 at the Porterhouse when Cutler repeatedly told victim John Aiello, 38, to “settle down” while they sat at adjacent tables with their friends.
When Aiello and his pals blew off his requests, Cutler became so enraged that he sprung to his feet and slugged the rowdy patron in the eye.
Cutler apologized for slugging the noisy diner. “I’m sorry that he [Aiello] was put in that position, that his name was in the paper,” he said Wednesday. “I’m sure he’s a decent guy.”
When cops hauled the famous lawyer into the Midtown North Stationhouse, they struggled to fit the cuffs around his fat wrists, he told the Post.
The big-wig federal defense lawyer appeared in the 2001 Robert De Niro film, “15 Minutes,” and in a cameo playing himself on the hit TV show “Blue Bloods.”
The arrest will likely not affect his status with the New York State Bar Association.
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram