Central Park is turning into a leafy snake pit.
Major crimes have spiked in the urban oasis — which has been plagued by a rash of muggings — and residents are terrified to walk there at night.
Cops recorded 18 serious incidents through Sunday, compared with 11 incidents during the same time period last year.
And those figures don’t include the most recent mugging, when an elderly man walking home was robbed of his watch early Wednesday by a thief who grabbed him and demanded his valuables.
Mother of two Erica Weisselberg, 35, said the park seems fine during the day, but she steers clear after sunset: “I won’t even make dinner reservations at The Boathouse at night.”
Meanwhile, arrests in the park are down by more than half, with cops nabbing just 67 people, compared with 143 during the same time period in 2014. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has promised to beef up patrols in response to the recent crime spree.