A dapper stick-up artist yesterday handcuffed a Chelsea parking-garage attendant to a car and then roared off in stolen wheels, law-enforcement sources said.
The 50-something suspect, dressed in a suit jacket and tie, first strolled into the Icon Parking garage at 309 W. 14th St. and asked for a Hertz rental car at about 10:45 a.m., sources said.
After attendant Rahman Ashrafur, 45, told him that he had to make an online reservation, the suspect returned an hour later — with a black handgun, law-enforcement sources said.
“ `You want to get hurt? Put your hand here,’ ” the gunman said as he pulled out a pair of handcuffs, according to Ashrafur.
The suspect then handcuffed Ashrafur to the outside of a Hyundai — one arm through the front-seat window and one through the back-seat window, the victim told The Post.
The suspect barked: “ ‘Where’s my money? Are there any cameras ?’ ” Ashrafur said.
But the well-dressed gunman then got spooked when another vehicle pulled into the garage, according to Ashrafur.
The thief then hurriedly helped himself to a nearby 2011 gray Toyota Camry, which had its keys inside, and split.
“It happened suddenly,” said Ashrafur, who estimated the whole ordeal lasted less than five minutes.
“He came for money but didn’t take any money.”
Passengers in the car that spooked the gunman called 911 and put the phone up to Ashrafur’s ear, allowing him to tell cops the whole, weird story.
Remarkably, Bronx resident Ashrafur spent the whole day afterward at work.
“This is my duty,” he said about staying at his post all day yesterday.
“They are paying me so I am working.”
Ashrafur said he wasn’t fearful, even when the gun and handcuffs were pulled out by the assailant.
“I wasn’t afraid because I am not doing anything wrong,” the immigrant from Bangladesh said.
“I didn’t expect this when I came to America.”
But he admitted: “When someone holds you at gunpoint, it is stressful.”
Cops are scouring security cameras from the surrounding area plus bridges and tunnels looking for the stolen wheels, which belong to a New Jersey architect.
Additional reporting by David K. Li