NYC mayoral candidate Scott Stringer facing allegations of sexual misconduct by a second woman, report says

NEW YORK — A former Manhattan bartender accused Scott Stringer on Friday of forcibly kissing and groping her at a watering hole he used to own on the Upper West Side nearly three decades ago — the second woman to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the mayoral hopeful.

Teresa Logan, now 47, told The New York Times that Stringer subjected her to the unwanted advances while she was working for him in the spring of 1992 at Uptown Local, a since-shuttered bar on First Avenue that he co-founded and helped run.

Logan, who was 18 at the time of the alleged incidents, said she was motivated to come forward after hearing about Jean Kim, a former aide on Stringer’s 2001 public advocate campaign who has also accused him of unwanted sexual advances.

“It was like this trigger,” Logan told the newspaper of Kim’s claims. “There’s like a visceral feeling hearing her on the news, and him, and hearing her and knowing she was right. I was like, I know I have to do this.”

Stringer, who lost a number of high-profile endorsements after Kim’s accusations surfaced last month, did not deny Logan’s allegations.

“While I do not remember Ms. Logan, if I ever did anything to make her uncomfortable, I am sorry,” Stringer said.

Logan, who lives in Manhattan and now works in fashion, alleged the first incident of sexual harassment took place a few weeks after she started working at Uptown Local as she was carrying trays up a flight of stairs.

“He just, like, totally pats me on the butt, and like, squeezes it,” she said of Stringer. “I had no way of reacting. My hands weren’t free to even protect myself.”

Logan said Stringer’s behavior “freaked me out,” but that she tried to shrug it off because she was “getting paid in cash” and got “free drinks every night.”

On a later occasion, Logan said she was drinking at Uptown Local when Stringer proposed going to another bar. She agreed and they jumped into a cab together.

“I just have a memory of him in the car, putting his hand on my inner thigh,” she said, adding that he “definitely kissed me, like, made out with me.”

“And I was like, ‘No, no, no,’” she continued, “and then when I was so strong about the ‘no’ in that situation, it stopped and he kind of laughed it off, like, ‘Oh, I’m drunk, I’m sorry.’”

Since the allegations from Kim emerged several weeks ago, Stringer has tried to highlight backing from female supporters.

Two of the most prominent, former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, stood with Stringer at a Thursday rally intended to show off support from women.

Weingarten did not return a message Friday. Messinger said she had learned six days ago that another accuser might come forward, but said she’s still backing Stringer.

“I think the whole thing is a rat’s nest of odd allegations at odd times,” Messinger told the New York Daily News. “These things have to be looked at in context, and the context here is extremely troubling.”

Messinger specifically pointed to both accusers’ connection to attorney Patricia Pastor. When the Kim allegations became public, Team Stringer pointed to inconsistencies in Pastor and Kim’s story. One is that Pastor denied Kim applied for a job to work on Stringer’s 2013 comptroller campaign. Stringer’s current campaign then produced an email and resume Kim used in her application at the time.

Pastor also has a long-time connection to construction executive Ron Lattanzio, who, the Intercept reported, was engaged in a long-running feud with a union that Stringer had backed up.

“The timing is suspicious, and the role of this lawyer is very suspicious,” Messinger said. “This lawyer is not a sexual harassment lawyer.”

Pastor did not return messages Friday.