Metro

Man slashed in the face by violent ex-con in subway station

A man was slashed in the face at a Brooklyn subway station Monday morning when he woke up the wrong sleeping straphanger — a violent ex-con who served time for stabbing someone to death with an ice pick.

Ricardo Medina, 33, was at the Classon Avenue G train station on the Queens-bound platform when he attempted to wake 54-year-old Anthony Purdie, who was catching some shuteye on one of the benches around 3:15 a.m., according to sources.

Medina later told police he tried shaking Purdie to make sure he was all right.

Little did he know that the man he was checking has been arrested more than a dozen times, including for assault, robbery and murder, for which he served 14 years.

When Purdie jolted awake, he started barking at Medina and the two men started arguing, sources said.

That’s when the career criminal pulled out a box cutter and sliced the Queens resident across the nose.

After the slashing, Purdie fled the station and ran to the 88th Precinct, where he told cops that someone had tried to rob him.

Minutes later, Medina walked into the same police station and pointed out Purdie as the man who cut him, according to police.

Purdie was arrested and charged with assault and menacing.

His long rap sheet dates back to the late ’80s and early ’90s and includes his 14-year stint for murder, after he stabbed someone to death with an ice pick in Brooklyn.

Medina also has a long history with the law — including over a dozen arrests for robbery, assault and burglary.