A mugger brutally beat a Hell’s Kitchen food vendor with a metal pipe – breaking his teeth – before ripping off $3,500 from him in a brutal attack this week, authorities said.
The 36-year-old food cart operator was working around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at the corner of West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue when the menace approached him and bashed him in the face and body with “multiple objects,” including the pipe, according to cops and sources.
The attacker then snatched $3,500 from the badly battered worker and bolted into the 50th Street subway station nearby, police said.
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The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, but was left with some broken teeth, authorities said.
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