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Get ready, New York — the End is Nigh!
According to a loony doomsday cult — which has pasted the city’s subways and bus stops with ads predicting Armageddon — the world will end sometime between 5 and 6 p.m. tomorrow in a massive outbreak of earthquakes and tidal waves.
The so-called “Rapture” will cause the souls of the saved to be sucked into heaven, while the rest of humanity will be left behind on earth to face Judgment Day.
Yesterday, many New Yorkers feared their weekend plans might be severely affected by the end of the world.
“It’s a downer,” joked Sharon Gordin, 31, a personal trainer from Forest Hills, Queens.
“I still haven’t been to [hip Lower East Side restaurant] Beauty & Essex,” she lamented. “And don’t I have at least a year to get married or do any of the other things I want to do?”
According to Robert Fitzpatrick, a Staten Island man who has spent $140,000 to buy the ads warning of the Apocalypse, the Rapture is no joke.
“My advice is to cry out for mercy now!” he told The Post yesterday. “Read the Bible, and put yourself in the environment where you will be saved.”
The end-of-the-world prediction is being made by self-styled prophet Harold Camping, 89, an Oakland, Calif., man who founded Family Radio World Wide.
Most New Yorkers aren’t taking Camping or his prophecy seriously, as he made a similarly bogus prediction in 1994. Some are organizing Rapture parties.
“I wanted to have a barbecue,” said Kyle McGovern, who is expecting 30 people at his Rapture bash in Queens. “I think if the world ends it will be really funny to have a bunch of my friends drinking Corona in Astoria.”
Fitzpatrick, 60, thinks doubters shouldn’t be so glib.
“We’ve got the proof. There are irrefutable truths, too many to deny,” he said.
The MTA, despite hosting the ads, says it does not expect the Rapture to affect service. “We intend to go on as scheduled,” a spokeswoman said.