Alec Baldwin arrested for punching a man in fight over parking spot in New York City

Nov. 2, 2018 / 6:17 PM GMT / Updated 6:56 PM GMT

By David K. Li

Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday after he allegedly punched another man in a fight over a parking spot in New York, police said.

The incident happened about 1:45 p.m. in front of his E. 10th St building, the NYPD said.

Baldwin punched the victim once in the left side of the face, law enforcement sources told NBC New York. The victim complained of pain and was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital.

The “Saturday Night Live” regular was taken to the 6th Precinct station house in Greenwich Village, police said.

Baldwin, 60, has recently been best known for his comical impression of President Trump.

“I wish him luck.” the real-life Trump said when asked about Baldwin’s new legal problem in New York.

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The president’s son Donald Trump Jr. was less diplomatic, recalling how Baldwin once called his daughter “a rude, thoughtless pig” in a 2007 voicemail message.

“Is anyone shocked at this piece of garbage anymore? As if the phone calls to his daughter weren’t bad enough,” Trump Jr. tweeted. “He’s a lib so he gets chance after chance to be decent but always fails!”

In 2014, Baldwin was charged with disorderly conduct for riding his bike the wrong way down a one-way New York City street and yelling at a police officer. The case was later dismissed.

Back in 2013, Baldwin was photographed throwing photographer Paul Adao into a car after the man filmed the actor and his wife Hilaria in Greenwich Village. Baldwin was never charged in that incident.

“He has a temper,” Ado said on Friday. “This doesn’t surprise me.”

In 1996, he was acquitted of misdemeanor battery in a case where he was accused of striking a celebrity photographer who tried to videotape him and his family in Los Angeles.