Embattled Assemblywoman puts campaign HQ in building where rival works

The battle for this New York State Assembly seat is getting up-close and personal.

Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright just opened her campaign headquarters on the ground floor of a massive Upper East Side residential building — where her Republican opponent, Louis Puliafito, is the doorman.

“It’s so petty,” Puliafito told The Post on Sunday, outside the 38-story luxury Kingsley building on First Avenue and 70th Street.

“With all the storefronts vacant, why choose this one?”

The 62-year-old Republican said he was stunned when he showed up for work and saw Seawright’s campaign occupying ground floor space.

On the storefront window is a big poster of Seawright with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and state Sen. Liz Krueger, both Democrats who also represent the UES.

“It’s funny. She’s trying to win over the support I got there at the Kingsley. She wants to be in my face every day,” Puliafito said in amazement.

“It’s petty and vindictive,” he added. “It just shows that you know she’s really showing her true colors.”

The three-term Democratic incumbent is fighting for her political life after she got knocked off the Democratic and Working Families Party ballot lines over paperwork snafus.

Seawright is running on her own ballot line — the Rise and Unite Party.

But she wants voters in the heavily-Democratic 76th assembly district covering the UES and Roosevelt Island that she’s the Democrat incumbent — even though she’s running on her own independent line.

That includes making a pitch to tenants in the Kingsley who know Puliafito.

“We are campaigning in every corner of our Assembly district, including at the front door of my Trump-supporting Republican opponent. Trump and his supporters can run but they cannot hide,” Seawright said in a statement.

“Our campaign Storefront will beat our opponent’s Trump-front on Election Day,” she said.

Puliafito has repeatedly refused to say whether he supports Trump’s re-election, saying he’s sticking to local issue pertinent to the campaign.

He is a union man and a proud member of SEIU Local 32 B, which represents workers in residential buildings.

But Local 32BJ in February endorsed Seawright over one of their own.

Spotted at the dueling location, Seawright waved off putting her campaign HQ in the same building where Puliafito works.

“Well as you know my legislative district is 62nd Street to East 93rd Street East of Third Avenue and all of Roosevelt Island, and we’re just so excited to be out meeting voters and passing out absentee applications and answering questions,” she said.

Still, Seawright’s bid for re-election is further complicated by the presence of another candidate running on her left flank — Patrick Bobilin, a Black Lives Matter protester who was arrested for criminal mischief. He is running under the Blue Wave banner.

A state Supreme Court judge in Manhattan last week rejected a bid by Seawright’s team to knock Bobilin off the ballot after claiming he did not meet the five-year residency requirement to run. Her backers are appealing the ruling.

“I feel vindicated. It’s a win for working people who want to run for office,” Bobilin said of his court victory.

He called Seawright’s move to get him off the ballot “hypocritical” after she complained of being tossed off ballot lines herself.

Bobilin could play spoiler by siphoning some votes from Seawright and increasing the odds of a Puliafito victory. A Republicans hasn’t been elected on the UES in two decades.