NEW YORK — A man charged with attacking a woman with feces inside a Bronx subway station last week is out on supervised release, the Brooklyn District Attorney's office said Wednesday. The move came after Abokwa was rearrested in connection with an incident that authorities are classifying as an anti-Semitic hate crime that took place this past fall. 

Frank Abrokwa, 37, was arrested on hate-crime harassment and hate-crime menacing charges around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, the NYPD said. 

Police said Abrokwa made anti-Jewish statements toward, and then spat on, a 46-year-old man who was in front of a building on Utica Avenue, between Park Place and Prospect Place in Crown Heights, around 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 9 of last year. Abrokwa fled the scene after the incident, the NYPD said.

Abrokwa’s arrest came after prosecutors said he was released on his own recognizance Tuesday in connection with an attack that took place at the Wakefield—241st Street subway station in the Bronx on Feb. 21. 

Prosecutors said a 37-year-old woman was sitting on a bench on the station’s southbound platform around 5:15 p.m. when Abrowka smeared feces on her face, head, neck, shoulders and back. 

The attack left the woman with a cut to the inside of her lip, as well as a swollen face, according to a complaint filed with the Bronx District Attorney’s office. She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, the complaint said.

Abrokwa has been charged with reckless endangerment, assault, menacing, harassment and disorderly conduct in connection with the attack, which was caught on surveillance video, prosecutors said. He was arrested in connection with that case on Monday.

Authorities said Abrokwa has 44 prior arrests dating back to 1999. 

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber was disappointed by the decision to let Abrokwa go on supervised release despite multiple arrests. Supervised release was the most Abrokwa could receive pre-trial, the Brooklyn DA's office said.

"I'm not a criminal justice expert but I don't understand how someone who commits this kind of assault — which was violent, horribly victimizing a transit rider — can just walk free even when he has four other open cases against him, including two other transit assaults and a hate crime charge," Lieber said in a statement. "It defies common sense."

In his own statement released on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams said Abrokwa "should not be out on the streets of New York," adding that his "release shows the scope of changes that we need to make in order to keep New Yorkers safe."

"It is the result of a failed mental health system, a failed housing and support system, and failing criminal justice laws that allow someone with a history of violence who poses a clear threat to public safety to just walk out of court," Adams said. "We can’t allow this horrific situation to be the status quo and must make changes to our laws to both prevent these sort of attacks, through intervention and support, and, when they happen, to subsequently keep people who are clearly a danger to others off the street.”

MTA spokesperson David Steckel on Tuesday said the subway attack was “another example of why we fully support efforts by the governor and mayor to deliver essential mental health services to those who need them.” 

NY1 has reached out for comment from Abrokwa’s attorney.