He’s got to be the most heartless thief in the city — swiping a 98-year-old woman’s purse off her lap as she sat in a wheelchair on a Brooklyn sidewalk.
“He scared me. I’m tired. I don’t feel so good,’’ the woman said of the bicycle-riding bandit on Friday.
The Kensington senior, whose name is being withheld by The Post, is a Russian immigrant who barely speaks English.
She was sitting in her wheelchair near her home, getting fresh air, at around 1 p.m. on June 29 when the creep rode up on a bike and robbed her, authorities said.
A home health-care attendant was with the woman, but the robber moved too quickly and got away, officials said.
“[The victim] told me a guy came up behind her very fast on a bike and snatched her purse. She told me it happened so fast she didn’t get a good look at him,” a building worker recalled.
“And then she was crying, saying, ‘Everything’s gone, everything’s gone.’
“She was really upset. The guy took her money, her house keys, all her identification.”
The worker added that woman is “terrified” that the thief will come back and find her.
Cops have surveillance video of the thug but hadn’t nabbed him.
They said he fled with the woman’s cellphone, keys, Medicare card and $400.
“I’m scared,” said the woman, who lives a few blocks from Prospect Park.
A disgusted police source said: “Of all people to victimize, the elderly. This guy is heartless.
“A 98-year-old woman? What a piece of s- -t. That’s just cold. I’m sure someone will [identify him to police]. Unbelievable. He can’t run forever.”
Neighbors called the crime unconscionable.
“She’s very nice and very quiet. What can she do? Nothing,” said one resident, who would give only his first name, Bogdan.
“When her husband was alive, it was better for her. But now she’s alone.”
Resident Lilly Ramos, 52, seethed, “A poor woman in a wheelchair gets her purse snatched? Did he need the money that bad?
“What a terrible thing to do to a 98-year-old woman. This is a safe and quiet neighborhood.”
Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli and Kate Sheehy