Cops arrest man suspected in a wave of attacks on Asians in Manhattan

Police were questioning a man Wednesday amid a wave of attacks on Asians in Manhattan, police sources said.

A 72-year-old Asian man was punched in the face in an unprovoked attack around 9:35 a.m. outside Pace High School near Hester and Eldridge Sts. on the Lower East Side, the sources said. His attacker ran off following the incident. EMS transported the elderly victim to New York Downtown Hospital in stable condition.

Cops were investigating if the same attacker was connected to three other incidents — assaults of two other Asian men who suffered minor injuries, and the  pickpocketing of an Asian woman, sources said.

“You Asian f—-, you f—-ing Asians,” the attacker allegedly yelled during the disturbing attacks, according to a source.

The man being questioned allegedly fought with cops, with one officer transported to a local hospital with injuries, the source said. He has an arrest history, the source added.

The NYPD Hate Crimes task force is investigating the incident.