The innocent New Yorker beaten to death by a madman in Brooklyn was a beloved fixture in the borough’s tight-knit Italian community known for selflessly offering help to those in need, stunned friends told The Post Thursday.
Nicola Tanzi’s boundless kindness would have even extended to the deranged killer who brutally attacked him for no reason outside the Jay Street-MetroTech station on Tuesday afternoon, according to the deacons at the two Roman Catholic churches he devoutly attended.
“Nicky had such a kind heart and was always a glass-is-half-full kind of person and he always had concerns for others,” said John Heyer, the deacon of Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Carroll Gardens.
“So, I believe he’d help and forgive the person who did this and [would have] gotten them the help that they needed.”…