Call it an iGrab.
The Upper West Side Apple store is on high alert after scheming crooks swiped boxes of coveted iPads from UPS deliverymen in separate incidents last week.
“We definitely have a heightened security presence,” said a worker at the store at Broadway and 67th Street.
The brazen daylight robberies came just weeks after the tablet computers hit the shelves.
“Thieves are opportunists, and it’s the hottest gadget out there,” a police source said of the gizmo, which starts at $499.
In the first incident, at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday, the unsuspecting delivery driver was stacking boxes outside of his truck when a man approached and grabbed a box containing five iPads, cops said.
The thief, described as Hispanic, sprinted down 67th Street then south on Amsterdam Avenue.
Two days later, a pair of thieves was able to pull off a similar caper right in front of the store’s main entrance.
Police said the UPS driver was putting boxes on a handtruck when someone asked him for directions.
When his attention was diverted, an accomplice grabbed a box holding five iPads and dashed south on Broadway.
The driver told cops the second thief was a 5-foot-10, light-skinned Hispanic man weighing about 175 pounds.
The gadgets are so hot that even store salespeople aren’t privy to delivery times. “Even if I knew, I couldn’t tell you. We don’t know when we’re getting more in,” an employee said.