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Bill de Blasio looked like a forlorn, aging city hipster as he spent the morning after New Year’s all alone, dressed in sweats and a wool cap, gazing wistfully out the window of a NoHo coffee shop.
The former New York City mayor, 62, was snapped at the Gasoline Alley Coffee Shop in Manhattan around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, with a tipster telling The Post that de Blasio appeared to be glumly lost in his thoughts as he slumped over a cup of Joe.
“He looked lonely, cold and homeless, sitting right next to the door,” the source said. “Had the coffee not been so pricey, I would’ve handed him a $1 note.”
De Blasio gazed out onto Lafayette Street, holding his phone and sporting headphones, in one of the photos.
The lonely image was a departure from his last recorded public sighting in the Big Apple in December, when he was caught looking dapper in a black sweater and purple suit while holding hands with his most recent squeeze — Kristy Stark, a married businesswoman who runs her own literacy company.
Stark, 42, and the former mayor were photographed taking a stroll in NoHo on Dec. 14.
News of the apparent tryst came as a shock to Stark’s husband of 12 years, Owen Stark.
“She’s denied any sort of infidelity in the past,” he told The Post at the time. “If she has something to tell me, she’ll tell me.”
De Blasio’s cozy outing with Stark was only the latest apparent date he has been spotted on since the ex-mayor and his wife of 30 years, Chirlane McCray, announced they were separating in July.
In October, the lefty onetime mayor was seen at a candlelight date with a mystery woman in Lower Manhattan, laughing and sipping wine for three hours at the upscale La Mercerie.
The unidentified date sported a nose ring and donned a black baseball cap for the entirety of the dinner inside the eatery at the flashy Roman and Williams Guild building.
In September, the ex-Hizzoner also was nabbed in a heated make-out session with another mystery woman at the Big Appel’s Empire Rooftop Bar — another public tryst that lasted at least three hours.
Then in August, de Blasio was out in Soho with a young brunette who worked in his administration. On that occasion, he was looking slim and trim and sporting a black polo shirt, cream-colored chinos, blue New Balance running sneakers – and his famous newly dyed brown locks – as he strutted through SoHo accompanied by his former policy analyst, Sarah Batchu.
McCray, who had previously identified as a lesbian before marrying de Blasio, later said she and her ex were “still very much in love” — and they hoped to serve as “a model” for other couples.
De Blasio did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday about his solo coffee outing in NoHo.
Staffers at Gasoline Alley Coffee could not immediately be reached for comment.
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