Two masked Brooklyn brutes stabbed a delivery driver in a bungled attempt to snatch his moped Tuesday morning — then knifed a good Samaritan who tried to intervene, authorities and sources said.
The violent pair approached the 25-year-old victim – a Venezuelan delivery worker – around 9:30 a.m. at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue and tried to steal his ride, authorities and sources said.
When he resisted, the crooks stabbed him in the arm.
“I saw the robbers on a red motorcycle — two of them,” said 56-year-old Pedro Saavedra, who works at the Shell gas station on the corner where the attack went down.
“One of the robbers had a knife. He came off the bike. I heard him say, ‘Give me the motorcycle, give me the motorcycle, give me the keys, give me the keys,’” he told The Post.
But the delivery driver refused, and after one of the thieves dropped his phone they all began to fight, sources and the witness said.
“The robber pushed the guy and the guy fell and the motorcycle fell. The handle was broken but it was still running,” Saavedra said.
Then a 34-year-old man saw the commotion, and attempted to intervene.
“He saw the fight and he came to help,” Saavedra said. “The robber cut the motorcycle guy on the arm and white guy got cut in the back and the leg.”
The suspects – who wore black masks, black sweaters and blue jeans – fled after the attack and have not been caught, cops said.
Both wounded men were taken to NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn, where they were listed in stable condition – but Saavedra said the delivery driver wouldn’t have made it unless he intervened and put a tourniquet around the wound.
“If I didn’t do that, five minutes, finished. He would be dead. There was a lot of blood,” Saavedra said.
“New York… too much problems,” he added.
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The attack came hours after a 37-year-old man was stabbed while trying to fight off a would-be thief at MacDougal and Bleecker streets in Greenwich Village, cops said.
The mugger approached the victim around 5 a.m., demanded money and tried to grab his wallet, authorities and sources said.
The victim got into a dust-up with the suspect, who knifed him in the back, according to cops and sources.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
No arrests have been made.
