It’s the Big Apple’s newest — and goriest — tourist attraction.
Visitors flocked to Seventh Avenue between 37th and 38th streets yesterday to take pictures of each other standing next to bloodstains on the sidewalk — left by the knife-wielding madman shot dead by cops a day earlier.
“It’s amazing. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God!’ That’s so different than what we’re used to. It’s so gross,” said Abby Smith, 25, of the Scottish city of Edinburgh, which averages fewer than a dozen murders a year.
Smith giddily snapped photo after photo of her traveling pal, Scott Ramsey, standing over the blood to show the folks back home.
A German tourist named Alex, 18, also took a picture of the gruesome new hot spot — even as he wondered why no one had cleaned up the blood 24 hours after cops had gunned down Darrius Kennedy, 51, in a hail of bullets.
“I think it’s strange. Yesterday, I saw the story on the news. I think it’s strange in all of those hours they didn’t clean it up. It’s disgusting!” Alex said.
Some poor passers-by stepped right into it, leaving visible footprints, before they knew what it was — and then furiously scraped the soles of their shoes to clean off the gory residue.
A class of 16 people on a tour sponsored by the New York Real Estate Institute stopped to walk around the mess amid shrieks of “Eeewww!” and “How disgusting!”
The tour leader used the gruesome tableau as part of his lecture to his class.
“I’m aghast that the [building] management agency hasn’t cleaned this up! It’s egregious that the city had left the building to clean up the sidewalk,’’ he griped. “It’s a health hazard, it’s unsafe! What if someone slipped and fell?”
Student Yehuda Miller, 26, said they should have cleaned it up “out of basic human dignity.
“A scene like this should be properly cleaned up. There’s a basic Jewish principle to clean up every particle. To clean up the scene is to show respect,” he said.
Even jaded New Yorkers grew queasy at the sight of the blood in the street.
“They should have cleaned it up. Why should people be walking in his blood?” wondered Stephanie Torres, who works nearby and heard the shooting at about 3 p.m. Saturday.
New Yorker Gene Grubbs and a pal were walking toward the Times Square Church on West 51st Street when they stepped into the ghoulish scene.
“I can’t believe they left it like this. It shocked me. I’m surprised I didn’t see the body [still here], it’s such a mess,” Grubbs said as people sidestepped the blood.
Grubbs’ buddy, a man who gave his name only as Thomas, was equally grossed out.
“It’s just showing no class for the city. People are walking through it,” he fumed.
Dennis Ruiz, 55, of Brooklyn called it “damn nasty, nasty” as he walked by.
“It’s horrendous. Why in a country so rich do [they] allow things like this to linger?” Ruiz asked.
The Bloomberg administration didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks