The crazed man who slashed the editor of the real estate blog Brownstoner on a Brooklyn subway was arrested Tuesday morning in New Jersey, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The 24-year-old man, identified as Christopher Lange, was picked up by the Violent Felony Squad in Newark, sources said.
Police were able to ID the accused slasher by a surveillance image.
Cate Corcoran, 51, was on a Manhattan-bound A train at the Nostrand Avenue station at 5:45 p.m. last Wednesday when the maniac snatched her iPhone and sliced her down the left side of her face, police said.
“I just worried that I was going to bleed to death — fortunately, that didn’t happen,” Corcoran, who received about 40 stitches from the terrifying attack, told The Post at the time.
When a reporter informed Corcoran of the arrest Tuesday she said, “He was arrested? I’m going to have to call the police for more information. I don’t have any other comment right now.”
Corcoran added, “I’m feeling fine.”
Lange is a resident of the city-funded Atlantic House Men’s Shelter in Brownsville, according to sources.
The 200-bed shelter “provides temporary emergency housing in a safe, supportive and drug-free facility for single men who are dually diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse,” according to the non-profit CAMBA, which runs the shelter.
One shelter resident, who would only identify himself as King, 36, described Lange as “bugged out.”
“You could tell he had a lot of problems with drugs,” said King, who added that Lange would often hang out at the Bedford-Nostrand Avenue subway station and peddle a scam selling illegal swipes using a bent MetroCard.
King said that Lange may not have been out on the streets if the shelter “helped us with programs.”
He described the shelter conditions as comparable to “skid row.”
Another shelter resident, Edward Smith, 53, said Lange “was actually quiet, he kept to himself.”
“He didn’t start no sh-t with us in here. He was probably looking for somebody who seemed weak,” Smith said, noting that he has not seen Lange around in recent months.
Lange has four prior arrests on his record, sources said.
His most recent arrest was on Feb. 13 after he walked through an emergency gate at the Union Square subway station to avoid paying the fare, sources said.
When police searched Lange, who at the time had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, they found a small bag of marijuana on him, according to sources.
In December, Lange was arrested on a charge of petty larceny for stealing a man’s bicycle in the Bronx, sources said.
His two other arrests, one on Feb. 19 of 2016 and the other a month later – both in Queens – were sealed.
Lange will be moved to Brooklyn from Newark for his arraignment, law enforcement sources said.