The disgraced ex-chef of an East Village raw food restaurant — who has been arrested repeatedly for exposing himself to subway riders — was busted again on charges that he exposed himself to a startled straphanger at a Greenwich Village subway station, The Post has learned.
Dan Hoyt, 55, was caught on surveillance video pleasuring himself inside the East Eighth Street and Broadway station then exposing himself to a woman as she descended the staircase to the platform, a complaint states.
Prosecutors Charles Manfredi called it “a very serious case” at Hoyt’s May 11 arraignment and said the troubled vegan had already amassed four misdemeanor convictions for exposure.
“In addition to masturbating publicly inside of the subway station, earlier in the evening, the defendant pulled his pants down in front of the complaining witness and exposed his naked and erect penis to her,” the ADA told Judge Phyllis Chu, who ordered Hoyt held on $1,000 bail.
The serial subway perv took a no-jail plea deal just last year for the same crime at the same station.
In that case, he pleaded guilty to committing serial acts of public lewdness for accosting a 24-year-old woman Jan. 1, 2016 and agreed to complete a sex offender program.
Hoyt yelled to the victim, “Hey, look over here,” as he stood on the platform with his pants around his ankles.
The next day, Hoyt, sans pants, advanced toward the same woman inside a subway car as he masturbated.
In November 2016, he took another plea deal for harassing a 25-year-old woman at his favorite haunt, the East Eighth Street and Broadway station.
“Can I masturbate to you?” he asked the shocked woman. He copped to harassment in exchange for time served.
Quintessence, where Hoyt was once the chef and co-owner, closed in 2017 after his repeated arrests for exposure and public lewdness showered the restaurant in bad publicity.
Hoyt’s ex-partner opened Vegan Love, a cafe in the same storefront as the shuttered restaurant on East 10th Street near First Avenue, which happens to be next door to Hoyt’s apartment.
Hoyt’s subway compulsions landed him in the news in 2005 for exposing himself to at least six women at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station.
The chef faces up to a year in jail if convicted of the top count of serial acts of public lewdness. Defense lawyer James Palumbo didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
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