My Time Is Also Money, So Don’t Get Any Ideas, Perps-To-Be — When You Steal Our Subway, You Steal From Everyone!

The “power problem” plaguing Lexington Avenue trains during rush hour last night was on account of this nitwit:

Subway service on the East Side was disrupted for nearly two hours yesterday after an above-ground thief turned tunnel rat to make his getaway.

The thug robbed a street-cart food vendor on 116th Street and Lexington Avenue and dashed into the nearby No. 6 station at about 3:45 p.m., sources said.

He then ran straight for tunnel and headed uptown, as cops ran toward him on the tracks from 125th Street, the sources said.

Local and express service was halted between 96th and 125th streets during a manhunt that included two K9 units.

Yet the perp still got away. There are at least three levels of tunnels in that stretch of subway, and he managed to “get lost” in them.

Service was restored a little before 6 p.m.