Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson might have gotten himself into hot water with Jews - the Yankee legend was caught on tape uttering an unflattering stereotype while haggling over the price of a painting.

Jackson was on East 61st Street and Madison Avenue, negotiating with a painter, when he asked the artist, "Are you Jewish?" according to Post lensman Larry Schwartzwald.

Schwartzwald then turned on his video camera and asked Jackson why he made the remark.

"You Jewish, too?" asked Jackson.

Mr. October then explained that the artist was driving a hard bargain and said he asked the man if he was Jewish "because he's always working me."

Jackson must have realized his faux pas, jokingly saying to artist Peter Zonis, "You're going to get me in trouble."

Jackson's exchange with Zonis on Saturday afternoon was the latest in two months of talks between them over a painting of the Viand Coffee Shop - a favorite Upper East Side hangout of the slugger.

Reggie and Zonis finally completed their deal yesterday, with the slugger paying $1,500 for the painting.

Zonis, 49, insisted that Reggie is not anti-Semitic.

The artist, who is Jewish, admitted he was pushing Reggie to both buy his painting and pose for a photo.

"He [Jackson] was being nice and he knew I wasn't going to let him leave the scene" without buying the picture and posing for a shot, Zonis told The Post.

"I think he was joking . . . that I had chutzpah."