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Owner of Ray’s Candy Store has several broken bones in his face after vicious attack

The elderly owner of Ray’s Candy Store has numerous broken bones in his face and is only able to eat through a straw after a vicious attack earlier this week.

Ray Alvarez told The Post Friday he finally received medical attention, checking himself in Thursday night to Beth Israel Hospital, where doctors treated him for extensive injuries.

“I have three broken bones, one here [side of face] one in my cheek, one in my eye, my jaw is dislocated,” said Alvarez. “I can’t eat solid food, I only drink through a straw.”

“No pain,” he added. “Just my jaw. When I play with that, I feel the pain.”

Cops were still searching for the assailant Friday.

Owner of Ray's Candy Store
William Farrington

Alvarez was beaten in a random attack just around 3 a.m. Tuesday outside his 24-hour candy shop in the East Village.

The stranger had asked him to buy a package he was carrying before handing it off and threatening to kill Alvarez.

The man then pulled out a belt with a rock attached to the end — and struck Alvarez in the right side of the face.

He didn’t go to the doctors at first, telling The Post he wanted to sleep.

Despite the beating — and now inability to eat solid foods — Alvarez was back at the counter of his 50-year-old store Friday.