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Three gun-toting goons used the subway to commit a multi-borough armed robbery spree Thursday evening, roughing up at least four straphangers and pedestrians in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The rampage started just before 8 p.m. at the Lafayette Avenue station in Downtown Brooklyn, police said.
The masked suspects approached a 33-year-old man on the C train, brandished a gun wrapped in a bandana and tried to rob him, the NYPD said.
When the victim resisted, they pistol-whipped him in the head, cops said. But he managed to run off the train when the doors opened and the suspects left empty-handed, according to police.
An hour later, the muggers held down a 35-year-old man on a G train in Park Slope, investigators said. That victim was also able to fend off the bumbling hoods, who fled the train into the Seventh Avenue station, the NYPD reported.
The spree continued in Chelsea around 10 p.m., when the robbers knocked down a 29-year-old man from behind on West 15 Street, punching and kicking him before stealing his backpack and phone and fleeing into the 14th Street station, police said.
A half-hour later, the suspects approached a 24-year-old man on Eighth Avenue and West 13th Street in the West Village and threatened to shoot him. The victim coughed up his phone, wallet and earphones, according to police.
Investigators were searching for the young men, who wore black pants, hoodies and masks as they sauntered down the sidewalk in security footage released by the department.
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