The blizzard didn’t bury him—roughing up his wife did.

Former Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith—who drew sharp criticism for bungling the X=Mas storm that shut down the city—actually resigned in disgrace after his wife, fearing for her life, had him arrested during an argument turned violent, The Post has learned.

Just days before he suddenly stepped down as Mayor Bloomberg’s chief of operations, Goldsmith was arrested at his Georgetown home after his wife, Margaret, told cops he smashed a phone and grabbed her as she desperately tried to call cops, a Washington, DC, police report reveals.

Goldsmith spent two days locked up in a DC jail, but prosecutors declined to press the case after Margaret said she didn’t wish to pursue it.

It was that shameful incident that spurred Goldsmith to resign Aug. 4 after just 14 months as the city’s operations chief

Bloomberg was informed of the arrest, and Goldsmith then resigned, a source familiar with the situation said yesterday.

(Source: NY Post)