A crook swiped a Citi Bike and then led cops who stopped him for riding on a sidewalk on a foot chase in the West Village that went onto the subway tracks and a city bus before he was nabbed, police said.
William Perry, 30, of Harlem was pulled over near the subway station at Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue about 12:30 p.m. Monday and told cops who were ticketing him that a pal had checked out the bike and lent it to him, according to a criminal complaint.
But when a female officer tried to cuff him he ditched the bike and bolted into the station, hopped a turnstile and leapt onto the train tracks below in a frantic bid to escape, cops said.
Perry sprinted down the tracks and then climbed a ladder back onto the platform, ran from the station and boarded a bus, they said.
A sharp-eyed passerby told police where Perry went and cops pulled the bus over on Seventh at Bedford Street and collared the fleet-footed suspect.
Perry was charged with theft of services, criminal possession of stolen property, resisting arrest and criminal trespass.
He was later picked out of a lineup by a chain-snatching victim, they said.
The complaint said Perry yanked a gold chain off a 19-year-old’s neck at Henry and Market Streets around 5:00 p.m. June 21.