After squandering NYCs trust, Anthony Weiner is determinedto rise again: Im really good at this

Anthony Weiner met me for breakfast.He ordered toast, two eggs, corned beef hash and a third chance at politics.But before we broke bread at Cozy Soup and Burger near Astor Place, he made a prediction — that I would refer to him as “disgraced” in the headline or the first line of this column.It felt like part provocation, part defense mechanism.

Get the punches over with.Rip off the Band-Aid.

After all, he has a lot of self-inflicted wounds.To recap: In 2011, the then congressman tweeted a close-up photo of his underwear-clad crotch.He resigned from office.

In 2013, he ran for mayor and his win was seemingly inevitable … until it emerged that he had been sexting with women who weren’t his wife, under the name Carlos Danger.He finished fifth in the Democratic primary.

Then, in 2017, he pleaded guilty to sexting with an underaged teen.Weiner went to prison for 15 months, followed by a stint in a halfway house.The Post was unsparing, churning out a catalog of punny phallic headlines including “Weiner Exposed” and “Stroking Gun.”But now he is seriously weighing a run for City Council to represent District 2, which includes Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, East Village, Flatiron, Union Square, Gramercy, Murray Hill and Kips Bay.I simply wanted to know: Why the hell, at age 60, would he do that again? Is he some kind of masochist?“I struggle with addiction, and I know what it is.I manage it,” Weiner told me.

“No one of good faith, I think, made the argument that my acting out and my struggles had led me to be a bad congressman.I was really good at my job.”Weiner claims he didn’t miss it during his exile.

“I had no belief [a return] was possible.”But things happened in this city that made him start to see a place for himself.In June, an unhinged 30-year-old man went on a stabbing spree on East 14th Street — a corridor which, for years, has looked like third-world bazaar — killing one New Yorker and injuring two others.Weiner ...