Metro

Look out! It’s B’klyn Bridge’s war path

The Brooklyn Bridge just ain’t big enough for the both of ’em.

An all-out turf war has erupted between speeding cyclists and picture-snapping pedestrians over a narrow pathway that’s too close for anything but a collision.

The skinny strip smack in the middle of the bridge — meant to be shared equally by bikers and walkers — has been the site of several recent smashups and so many near-crashes that some have sworn off it forever.

The problem is compounded by a 300-foot-long patch of construction work that’s shrunk parts of the already narrow corridor to a mere 10½ feet wide.

The majority of the path is 12½ feet wide.

That teeny stretch — in which some cyclists race as fast as 30 mph — is divided by a white line routinely breached in the fog of sightseeing and onward march of commuting.

The battles have left both sides bloody, bruised and blaming the other.

One of the walking wounded was Dennis Newman, a Nebraskan tourist who stepped onto the white line while admiring the view — and got smacked by a speeding cyclist.

“He ran his pedal right into the back of my right leg, deep into my calf,” Newman said.

Thanks to the run-in, his holiday included an unplanned side tour of a genuine Big Apple emergency room — where he got 18 stitches — as well as a new understanding of the cultural differences between New Yorkers and Midwesterners.

“What the f- -k are you doing? There are bikes on the bridge!” yelled the BMX-riding cyclist before speeding off.

“It’s too dangerous to have bicyclists on the path,” Newman said. “It’s a tourist city, and there are a lot of people who aren’t aware of the etiquette of the bridge.”

But bikers lay the blame squarely at the pedestrians’ sneaker-clad feet.

One longtime biker from Brooklyn said a collision on the bridge with a clueless walker who had stepped into the bike lane had left him so scared he has given up riding.

“My handlebar caught her bag strap,” he said. “She wasn’t paying attention. She was on her cellphone just chatting away.”

He ended up flipping over and was bruised for days.

On a recent visit to the path, a Post reporter saw three near-smashups in a few hours.

Moving to get a picture of the bridge’s Manhattan Tower, Korean exchange student Yeon Hwa Jin, 23, tiptoed into the bike lane — and straight into the path of a speeding cyclist.

Luckily, the cyclist — who screamed at her — stopped just in time, sparing both any injury.

“I was concentrating on taking the picture,” said a shaken Jin. “I wasn’t paying attention.”

douglas.montero@nypost.com