Bad boy celebrity chef Adam Harvey has turned over a new leaf, admitting Monday that he did, in fact, attack a neighbor’s tree.
Harvey, who copped to a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief, must serve 20 days of community service as part of the plea deal.
The onetime “Top Chef” star had been accused of boring holes in the trunk of a maple tree adjacent to his Windsor Terrace property, and inserting some sort of poison into the holes after his neighbor refused to cut it down.
“Yes sir,” the chef-turned-lumberjack responded Monday when asked by Judge Joseph McCormack if he’d used a “drill to cut and drill multiple holes into the bark” of the tree, which was blocking the solar panels on his $1.5 million Windsor Terrace home.
His guilty plea follows a September appearance in which Harvey turned down a plea offer on the same charge — but which included 35 days community service. He’d faced up to a year behind bars prior to cutting a deal.
McCormack said the Bar Salumi co-owner will also have to shell out $3,694 in restitution for harm to the tree, which defense attorney Bruce Maffeo told The Post is thriving after the attempt on its life.
Harvey had already spent seven of the 20 required days toiling away at the Brooklyn House of Detention, his lawyer said. He was spotted last week by a Post shutterbug leaving the jail.
Asked Monday if his client had been assigned to the kitchen, Maffeo said that, unfortunately for the inmates, Harvey is simply performing “menial tasks” around the facility.
The flora foe is also barred from communicating in any way with the neighbor and owner of the tree, as part of the deal.
Yet Maffeo said that won’t be an issue, since his client is leaving the neighborhood, though his insisted the incident with the tree is “not related to the move.”
“We always felt this case was blown out of proportion, but he accepts responsibility for his actions and is looking forward to moving on with his life,” Maffeo said. “And he wishes his former neighbor all the best.”