Hiram Monserrate is serving the public again — one slice at a time.
The shamed former state senator is getting rid of his aggression these days by pounding the dough at a pizza shop in Queens.
A year after he was booted from Albany on charges he beat and slashed his girlfriend, Monserrate is working the counter at Papaya Pizza, a 2-month-old, $1.25-a-slice pizza joint located in his old Corona campaign headquarters.
But his notoriety has made several women in the community lose their appetites.
“We’d never buy anything [there]. I would never give him a dime. I would never want to put a dollar in his pocket,” said a teacher at nearby PS 19.
Karla Giraldo, who testified that Monserrate slashed her by accident, has not been spotted at the store.
Monserrate — who pleaded poverty after losing his plum position in the Senate — played coy when asked whether he owned the place.
“I still love politics,” Monserrate told The Post between sips of Sprite Zero.
The pudgy former politician gleefully admitted to sampling slices “almost every day” at the tiny Latin-themed pizzeria, which also sells flan and 99-cent hot dogs.
Later, he issued a statement citing his service in the Marines, NYPD, City Council and state Senate.
It adds: “I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve again. I am currently consulting and assisting in the management of Papaya Pizza.”
It also includes a shameless sales pitch, concluding with: “For dessert I recommend the coconut flan.”
The business was registered with the Department of State last November — a month after Monserrate was indicted on separate federal corruption charges — under the name “Papaya Pizza Corp.”
The address on the paperwork is his mother’s house in Queens, where Monserrate has lived off and on.
A worker who identified himself as the manager called Monserrate “the boss.”
Even by the abysmally low standards of New York politics, Monserrate’s time in office was disgraceful.
He was arrested in 2008 for assaulting Giraldo, accused of slashing her face with a broken glass.
Part of their violent argument was caught on a surveillance camera that showed him dragging the bleeding woman by her hair.
But she stuck by him and testified that it was all an accident. He was convicted only of misdemeanor assault, but it resulted in his getting tossed from the state Senate.
Last fall, the feds slapped him with a corruption indictment, stemming from his City Council stint.
He allegedly steered about $300,000 in funds to a Queens nonprofit, then used the group’s workers to collect signatures and register voters for his 2006 campaign for the state Senate.
He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
His miserable record as a politician notwithstanding, he seems to be following the rules in his new gig. Papaya Pizza got an “A” in the city Health Department’s grading system.
Additional reporting by Amber Sutherland