One hid his bruises; the other hid his shame.
Injured biker rampage victim Alexian Lien and his most notorious alleged attacker, NYPD undercover Detective Wojciech Braszczok, each wore hoodies in separate camera-shy appearances Friday.
Lien emerged silently from his Financial District apartment with his hood, cap and sunglasses barely concealing his stitches and lingering, yellowing contusions.
It was the battered Internet exec’s first public sighting since the Sept. 29 motorcycle melee on the West Side Highway that left him slashed and bleeding as his wife and 2-year-old daughter cowered in terror inside their Range Rover.
Meanwhile, the disgraced undercover — allegedly caught on video joining in the attack by smashing in Lien’s rear window as the vehicle was surrounded by his fellow bikers — covered his face as he came and went from Manhattan Criminal Court.
Braszczok, 32, of Queens, learned he has not yet been indicted and that he’ll have at least until next week to explain himself on a grand-jury witness stand. “I’m hanging in there,” he told photographers.
Cops and prosecutors are continuing to investigate the seven bikers charged so far in the shocking melee but are taking their time with Braszczok, who has hid his face from photographers since his arrest this week.
He has “safety concerns,” Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Steven Statsinger explained Friday.
The judge barred news photographers from shooting Braszczok in court. But the undercover’s image is all over Twitter and other Web sites.
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted two of the seven “moto-psychos,” accused of attacking Lien after he got into a fender-bender with the bikers. Cops say the first assailant, Robert Sims, 35, of Brooklyn, was seen on video stomping Lien in the head.
The second, Reginald Chance, 37, of Brooklyn, was caught on video repeatedly swinging his silver motorcycle helmet into Lien’s window, shattering the glass.
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg