Creep with 16 prior busts charged in attempted rape of 83-year-old NYC woman: cops

A homeless sicko with 16 prior arrests was charged Sunday with the attempted rape of an 83-year-old woman at her Upper Manhattan apartment, cops and law-enforcement sources said.

Yahiness Holden, 33 — whose rap sheet includes arrests for forcible touching and weapons possession — was picked up in Queens by the NYPD and charged in the twisted Oct. 26 incident at Vermilyea Avenue and West 204th Street, according to police and sources.

He was busted after he was spotted taking up too many seats on a Queens subway train and was questioned by police — who quickly ID’d him as the alleged perv caught on surveillance video after the attack, law-enforcement sources said.

Holden followed the elderly victim into her building shortly before 9 a.m. Oct. 26, then exposed himself and made “sexual advances” when she got to her apartment, police said.

“After a slight struggle, the individual was unsuccessful in entering the apartment and fled the location on foot,” the department said.

The woman was treated for minor injuries, police said.

Holden is charged with attempted rape, assault, two counts of burglary, stalking and attempted sexual abuse and is awaiting arraignment.

Despite a historic dip in most major crimes in the city so far this year, rapes continue to buck the trend, with 1,774 reported citywide through Nov. 1, up from 1,740 over the same span last year, a 2% increase.