An elderly couple was brutally beaten and robbed Wednesday in their Queens home, police said.
The victims were robbed by two attackers who pretended they were doing work on the couple’s home on 15th Avenue in Bayside, then pushed their way in around 2:20 p.m., sources said.
The Post is withholding the victims’ names because of the attack.
The thieves beat and bloodied the 85-year-old wife, whose 86-year-old husband was partly incapacitated by a stroke, according to family members and police sources.
The feisty husband received several blows to the head during the robbery, but managed to bite one of the attackers before they fled, said Sebastian Pepi, 71, whose life partner is the couple’s niece.
“He just had a stroke about a year ago,” Pepi said.
“They’ve been walking up and down because they take walks here. I’m here 10 years and they’ve been here for 20. They’re very nice people. It’s stunning.”
A neighbor, Dee Corio, 55, called the couple “sweet” and said they decorate their windows for all of the holidays.
“They try to coordinate it with the people who live next door to them,” she said. “They mind their own business. They’re nice people. This is just terrible.”
The husband’s struggles may have made him an easy target in the quiet, well-kept neighborhood, Corio added.
“All these people are like 85 years old,” he explained. “They’re so used to maintenance coming by. They trust them. This is a really safe area. I have a neighbor who still leaves her door unlocked. We try to tell her not to.”
The tranquility of the tree-lined street was disrupted by the sight of about a dozen police officers who had taped off the cul de sac and were letting only residents from that street drive their cars through.
Neighbors said a heavy police presence in the neighborhood is not a common occurrence.
“This has never happened around here,” Pepi said. “When they see a cop car go around the block, they say, ‘Oh, there’s a cop car.’ ”
Another neighbor said the thug’s posing as workers likely earned the couple’s trust before invading their home.
The victims were rushed to New York Hospital Queens for head trauma and facial injuries, but both are expected to survive, authorities said.
It was not immediately clear what was taken and cops are still searching for the suspects.