Luck didn’t strike twice for this career criminal.
A serial suspect who saw his felony robbery charge downgraded by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office last month was finally ordered held on bail Thursday after allegedly punching a city sanitation worker.
Cristian Hall, 30, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of second-degree assault and third-degree assault for Wednesday’s unprovoked, sucker-punch attack in Chelsea.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Kuehn asked that Hall be held on $25,000 bail, telling the court that he had “attacked a uniformed department of sanitation worker.”
“Objection,” Hall interjected, prompting a reprimand from Judge Kevin McGrath.
The prosecutor noted that Hall allegedly attacked the unsuspecting civil servant while already having 19 open cases, 14 failure to appears and 10 active bench warrants.
One of his open cases is from a November incident where he’s accused of storming into a Manhattan building, slamming one person to the ground and then threatening another victim with a knife.
In another case from December, Hall allegedly stole from a Starbucks and brandished a sharp object at a worker after he was confronted for not paying.
Last month, Hall was featured in a front-page Post report about his arrest following a shoplifting incident at a TJ Maxx store in Chelsea.
Hall allegedly threatened workers there with a pair of scissors, but the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association said a Manhattan prosecutor “intentionally omitted” that information from the criminal complaint.
The arresting officer refused to sign the complaint until it was amended “to include the shears and threatening statement,” the SBA said.
But the third-degree robbery charge that cops lodged against Hall was still reduced to petty larceny under terms of the controversial “Day One” memo that District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, issued after he took office on Jan. 1.
Widespread outrage led Bragg to reverse that policy last week in a memo that said commercial robberies committed “at knifepoint, or by other weapon that creates a risk of physical harm, will be charged as a felony.”
In his most recent case, Hall allegedly snuck up behind the victim, a 55-year-old man, who was collecting trash outside 115 W. 23rd St. around 10 a.m., law enforcement sources have said.
He then clobbered the sanitation worker in the head, causing bruising and pain to his right cheek, according to the criminal complaint.
Hall’s Legal Aid attorney, Samuel Chiszar, asked for lower bail or for his client to be released on supervision — but the judge went with the $25,000 bail requested by the prosecutor.
Hall’s next court date is Monday.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona, Tina Moore and Bruce Golding