A young cyclist who was nearly killed by a thug near Penn Station on Saturday is recovering at Bellevue Hospital — and worried that he’ll now lose his new dream job as a pastry chef at Le Bernardin, pals said.
Al-Matin Mohamed, 24 — a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef who just moved here from Singapore two months ago — tried to smile for visitors in the intensive-care unit at Bellevue Hospital yesterday.
His legs, pelvis and an arm were broken when a robber speeding the wrong way down East 29th Street hit him while he was bicycling.
But rather than being angry at the driver, the young chef just wants to go back to work at the famed French restaurant in Midtown, said friends who visited him at Bellevue.
“It’s his passion,” said Joel Cheng, 24, who added that Mohamed had studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Australia.
“Honestly, I think he’s more concerned about his job, like when he can get discharged. I think he really wants to succeed in this.”
Mohamed’s mother and sister are journeying to the United States from Singapore today to see him, the friends said.
Trung Luong, 26, Mohamed’s classmate from high school, said Mohamed can’t talk yet because of bruising but can spell out words.
“He did not remember he was In New York at first,” Luong said. “A lot of people at home are following the news.”
Police have not yet caught the robber, who initially pummeled a man arriving from Virginia near Penn Station with an accomplice before taking his bag — and then struck an MTA police officer and a woman as he drove off in a gold Infiniti. He plowed into Mohamed minutes later.