NYC’s hottest new hamburger is from a gas station

It will really fill you up.

The tiny hamburger joint Smacking Burger has opened inside of a working gas station — which happens to be the last one in Manhattan below 14th Street.

On a recent Saturday, the owners said they served some 800 customers.

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Elizabeth Torres and Tommy Hondros are the burger-lovers behind Smacking Burger. Stephen Yang

The four-pump Mobil on the narrow corner of Eighth Avenue and Horatio Street has a small wedge of a convenience mart. When you walk in, there’s a typical cashier to the left. To the right, past a shelf of chips and adjacent to coolers of drinks, Smacking Burger occupies a tight triangle.

In that cramped space, station owner Tommy Hondros and his girlfriend Elizabeth Torres, along with two employees, take orders, fry fries, and cook burgers on a sizzling flattop grill.

“It’s hectic,” Hondros, 37, told The Post. “We’re trying to get everyone fed.”

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He and Torres, 32, started serving smashburgers — burgers pressed into thin, crispy-edged patties — out of the station at the end of April.

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