NYC suspends housing inspector after racist trope mailed to UES resident

City officials suspended a housing inspector Friday for allegedly using a racist trope to identify an Asian New Yorker in a government database — an insult the Upper East Side man discovered when he received a letter in the mail with the slur in the address label.

The notice of inspection from the Department of Housing and Preservation was addressed to ‘Chin Chong,’ a play on a deeply offensive anti-Asian stereotype, instead of the apartment’s residents — 22-year-old Duc Pham and his roommates. “It might have been one person who’s racist and the rest of the machine just didn’t catch the mistake,” Pham told The Post, “but it’s obviously very disappointing that the city — where we look to protect us, to make sure these things don’t happen — actually creates these problems.”