A former New York City mayoral aide and his dance-teacher wife were robbed of their wedding rings at gunpoint on a Brooklyn subway train Tuesday — while their toddler son slept next to them.
The 32-year-old husband, who worked for City Hall until last year, was with his 32-year-old wife and 2-year-old son on a northbound N train between Atlantic Avenue and 36 Street in Sunset Park around 1:30 p.m. when the armed mugger approached them, police and one of the victims said Wednesday.
“He stepped over to us and said, ‘Let me get that,'” the wife told The Post. “And my husband was very much into his phone and he said, ‘Excuse me?’ He thought the guy wanted to sit or something.”
“‘The rings. Give me your rings,'” the crook said, she recounted. “My husband didn’t see any gun. I saw the gun so I was very much frozen. I said, ‘Sir, please, we have a baby. Please leave us alone.’ And he said, ‘Give me your (husband’s) ring and give me your rings now.'”
“My husband was kind of rambling out of nervousness, saying, “This isn’t happening. Are you serious? You can’t do this to us.’ And I just said, ‘Just do it. Just give it. Please, just listen to me.’ He never flashed the gun but kept it here, (cocked at his hip). He never referenced it. Never said, ‘I have a gun,’ but we saw it.”
She said she put the rings — a one-carat diamond engagement ring and two white gold wedding bands, hers with embedded diamonds — on the seat next to them, and the thief grabbed them and got off at the 36th Street station.
The couple and their young son — whose names The Post is withholding at their request — were not hurt.
“My son was asleep the whole time,” the mom said. “I kept my hand on the stroller and he exited the train the same door he came on.”
“I’m appalled that someone would target a mother with a child,” she said. “I held my composure and calm until the doors closed and then I just lost it. I was very emotional. I was hysterical.”
“I’ve been riding the train for 15 years almost every day, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” she added. “I’ve never seen a gun, I’ve never seen a knife. So, for me it was very traumatic.”
If that all was not enough, it was also the husband’s birthday.
The couple later identified the suspect from a police photo array and were told cops believe they know who he is.
And despite the harrowing experience, she said they went out to cast their ballots after talking to the cops.
The mom is the owner and creative director of a Manhattan dance company and a former teacher at several of Big Apple dance schools.
Her husband is now an executive assistant at a financial services firm. He worked as an office manager for the mayor’s office from August 2012 until June 2015, then served as a business promotion coordinator until leaving the city government in April.