Warning: Don’t Push Mac’s Button

Talk about your ups and downs. One of John McEnroe’s Manhattan neighbors--a 61-year-old woman--claims the former tennis star terrorized her in a dispute over their building’s elevator.

Eleanor Weinstein told the Daily News that a raving McEnroe, whose volatile on-court behavior is well-documented, grabbed her from behind and spun her around when she complained he was monopolizing the use of the elevator in their Upper West Side building.

“I was afraid for my life,” Weinstein said. “He was wild. He was absolutely out of control. I was so frightened of this raging maniac.”

Weinstein said McEnroe, 36, had screamed at her.

“Who the hell are you?” she quoted McEnroe as saying. “I know who you are. You’re a lousy school teacher!”

Weinstein, a speech therapist at a Manhattan grammar school, said McEnroe was pointing his finger right between her eyes as he ranted.

A spokesman for McEnroe released a statement Saturday that said, in part, “Angry words were exchanged by both parties, but the other incidents reported in the newspaper bear no resemblance to the facts.”

Police said Weinstein filed a harassment report after the alleged incident Tuesday night, but said she failed to name the suspect and the complaint was closed. However, her lawyer, Stanley Szaro, insisted police were mistaken--that Weinstein did name McEnroe.

Weinstein said McEnroe’s explosion capped a battle over his use of the elevator. She and other tenants maintain McEnroe habitually holds the elevator at one of the three floors he owns in the elegant apartment building. When Weinstein asked a doorman to check if the elevator was stuck or broken, it allegedly set off the fiery former tennis star.