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AFA Gallery manager Frances Stern has worked with the world’s top artists, but she’s never seen anything like the Uber driver who took her for a wild ride into the Bronx, where she was forced to make a frightening escape, she says.

Now, Stern wants to throw the book at Uber and she’s hired high-profile attorney Brad Gerstman to take the wheel. Gerstman is a hard-hitting operative with serious political ties who announced this week that his firm was expanding its offices to Washington D.C. in the new year.

According to Stern, who’s a law school grad, she left her SoHo gallery on Nov. 5 to meet a friend nearby for a glass of wine, then called Uber for a ride to her Upper East Side apartment around 11:30 p.m. That’s when her terror trip began.

“He started going up the FDR and missed the turn on 61st St.,” says Stern, who lives off E. 81st St. Stern says that despite both her and the car’s GPS repeatedly telling the driver he’d passed her apartment, he continued blowing by exit after exit.

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Once the driver passed 125th St., Stern says, the man slowly and coldly said, “You changed your destination,” which she insists was not true. Stern says she frantically dialed 911 once it became clear she was headed into the Bronx. Finally, once they hit a stoplight, Stern says she bailed out and went to a gas station, where the driver pulled in for a moment, saw her speaking to witnesses, then drove off.

Gerstman, her legal eagle, plans to file a case after the holidays, but says that since Stern first told her tale to PIX11, Uber still will not cooperate, and he doesn’t know who or where the driver may be.

“We know nothing about this guy because Uber won’t give any information,” he said. Gerstman also says that the NYPD in the Bronx, where Stern says she went to file a complaint, would not take the report, allegedly because she didn’t know the driver’s name and because she was able to get out of the car unharmed.

Frances Stern claims she had to make an escape after an Uber driver took her miles past her intended destination.

Frances Stern claims she had to make an escape after an Uber driver took her miles past her intended destination.

(WPIX)

Gerstman, who’s currently preparing several cases against the livery mega-company, says that’s par for the course when dealing with Uber.

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“It’s a beast,” he said.

An NYPD rep confirmed there was no report on file, but did not respond when asked about the specifics of Gerstman’s claim.

Stern says Uber acknowledged she didn’t change her route, reimbursed her for the trip and offered her a $20 credit.

Uber did not reply to requests for comment.

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