Pop singer Gavin DeGraw was viciously beaten by a pack of thugs in the East Village early yesterday — and then hit by a taxi as he stumbled off, police sources said.
The 34-year-old performer — who has spent the summer opening for star rock bands Maroon 5 and Train — had been drinking and just left a group of pals when he was attacked by the marauding goons sometime between 3:50 and 4:20 a.m. at Sixth Street and First Avenue, the sources said.
His nose was broken and he suffered cuts to his face, they said.
The creeps then fled, and the dazed singer, whose hit song “Chariot” went platinum, kept walking, sources said.
He wound up at 19th Street and First Avenue, where he was struck by a cab, although he was not seriously injured.
He remained in Bellevue Hospital last night.
Degraw today tweeted, “Hi my friends. Honestly, I don’t remember much. I only know I can recover from here. Thank u all for your genuine concern. I love u guys.”
DeGraw, from upstate South Fallsburg, has a Manhattan pad. He and his brother own a bar, the National Underground, on East Houston Street.