New York- What him, worry?

With a smirk on his face and a sneer in his voice, accused subway pervert Dan Hoyt shrugged off the sex charges against him as he left a Manhattan courthouse yesterday.

“It’s a misdemeanor,” the Manhattan restaurateur arrogantly told a Daily News reporter after being arraigned on four counts of public lewdness.

Hoyt, 43, who owns two raw-food eateries called Quintessence, is accused of exposing himself to four women on subway trains and platforms between October and August.

One victim was appalled at his glib remark. “What he has done was so disrespectful to women,” said Thao Nguyen, 23, who helped cops catch Hoyt.

“Perhaps his smug attitude and total lack of remorse may influence the judge’s sentence? If there’s ever been an example of a guy who deserves the full three-month prison sentence, he’s it.”

When the flasher started fondling himself on an R train on Aug. 19, Nguyen snapped a photo of him with her camera phone and posted it on the Internet.

After the picture ran on the front page of The News last week, dozens of tipsters called to say the blond-haired man with the creepy grin was Hoyt.

Hoyt lay low and avoided the cops for three days but surrendered Wednesday and was picked out of a lineup by Nguyen and three other women.

At his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, his lawyer argued he should be released without bail – and the judge asked if he had turned himself in at the first opportunity.

The attorney, Michael Bachner, said he did, but the prosecutor quickly corrected the record.

“Once the defendant was identified he did not immediately turn himself in,” Assistant District Attorney Priscilla Steward said, “but he did eventually surrender.”

Judge Neil Ross set bail at $5,000, which was posted by Hoyt’s business partner, Tolentin Chan, who also is his ex-wife.

Hoyt smiled and yawned through the brief hearing, and sported a self-satisfied look as he left the courthouse – but became camera-shy when he spotted photographers.

He faces up to three months in jail if convicted of public lewdness, a misdemeanor – which is more than the two days of community service he got when he was busted for unzipping underground in 1994.

Although only four women were called in for lineups this week, police say they have located at least two more alleged victims and are investigating calls from other straphangers who believe they were flashed by the same man.