Rachel Noerdlinger called to Gracie Mansion after son’s arrest

Embattled City Hall aide Rachel Noerdlinger spent more than an hour behind closed doors in Gracie Mansion on Sunday in the wake of her son Khari’s arrest at a notorious drug spot — as new details emerged about the teen’s history of run-ins with the law.

Khari, 17, was busted in 2011 in an Upper West Side mugging in which a victim was robbed of $ 50 headphones, law-enforcement sources said.

According to the sources, the then-14-year-old was charged with second-degree robbery.

At the time, his mother — the $ 170,000-a-year chief of staff for First Lady Chirlane McCray — was the Rev. Al Sharpton’s spokeswoman.

Khari’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, said the robbery is not on Khari’s rap sheet.

“We confirm there was a mugging arrest but we deny that a mugging took place,” Lichtman said.

“It ended with a youthful-offender disposition, meaning there is no conviction.”

In addition, Khari was busted earlier for trespassing inside the same Washington Heights apartment building where he was caught Friday with three pals, two of whom were nabbed with small amounts of pot, sources said. The date of the first trespassing case was unclear.

And he got a “deferred disposition” in a disorderly-conduct case in his hometown of Edgewater, NJ, where a law-enforcement source said Khari was in a group of youths busted for running wild.

On Sunday, Khari — who in the past has tweeted anti-white and anti-cop sentiments, including, “I’m convinced all white people are the devil’’ and “Pigs always killing people’’ — declined to speak with reporters at the apartment he shares with his mom and her boyfriend, convicted killer and drug trafficker Hassaun McFarlane.

A spokesman for Mayor de Blasio said Rachel Noerdlinger went to the mayoral mansion for a “regularly scheduled meeting.”

Phil Walzak wouldn’t say what the meeting was about or with whom Noerdlinger spoke. He insisted that evening and weekend meetings “aren’t uncommon.”

On Saturday, Noerdlinger called de Blasio to let him know about her son’s trespassing arrest “as an FYI,” Lichtman said.

Noerdlinger was stone-faced and refused to comment as she drove away from Gracie Mansion in her silver Mercedes.

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