The taxi magnate who said he was cursed out by Mayor Bloomberg has added the alleged F-bomb-laced tirade to a lawsuit accusing the mayor of harassing him for opposing the “Taxi of Tomorrow” plan.
The amended suit, filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, charges that Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commission chief David Yassky orchestrated a blizzard of bogus tickets on cabs operated by Taxi Club Management CEO Gene Freidman.
Freidman — who claims Bloomberg told him, “I am going to destroy your f–king industry,” at a May 16 Knicks game — yesterday branded the billionaire mayor “un-American.”
“As a hardworking immigrant who came to this country and built my business, the conduct of the mayor smacks of un-American conduct,” said Freidman, who emigrated from Russia with his family when he was 5.
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled against the mayor’s taxi plan on May 15, but the city plans to continue the fight in federal court.
A day later — as The Post reported Wednesday — Bloomberg allegedly heaped abuse on Freidman at Madison Square Garden, threatening that “after January [when Bloomberg leaves office], I am going to destroy all you f–king guys.”
The suit calls Hizzoner’s threats “the most vivid of the defendants’ retaliatory intentions.”
Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood scoffed at the charges.
“It’s not uncommon for disturbed and angry people to file lawsuits against the mayor and the city of New York,” she said.
The TLC has imposed $85,000 in allegedly bogus fines on one of Freidman’s medallions, but Yassky offered to reduce them if Freidman dropped his opposition to the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” according to the suit, filed by attorney Steven Mintz, who represents Freidman and the Greater New York Taxi Association, co-plaintiff in the suit.
The suit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, is an amended version of an earlier action Freidman had filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in January.