This coyote wasn’t wily enough to outsmart the NYPD.
The canine took a tour of Manhattan late Saturday into early Sunday before finally being captured by police at Chelsea Piers, authorities said.
Cops cornered the critter on Pier 59, behind the golf club, around 8 a.m., knocked it out with a tranquilizer dart and then turned it over the Animal Care Centers of NYC in Brooklyn, officials said.
The waterfront showdown capped the coyote’s night on the town, during which it was spotted roaming the streets of Harlem late Saturday.
The beast eventually made its way downtown, with police picking up its scent at West 40th Street and 11th Avenue around 6:40 a.m., officials said.
The creature continued heading south until cops were finally able to trap it on the pier by West 18th Street, as tourists and jaded New Yorkers alike stopped to gawk at the wild scene.
“It’s very strange. A coyote in New York?” said Belgian tourist Alain Bailly, 52. “A coyote in such a town! It is not a place for wildlife.”
Manhattanite and jogger Sue Simon agreed.
“It’s a Christmas miracle!” that the coyote wasn’t flattened on its journey, said Simon, as traffic roared behind her on 11th Avenue. “I don’t know how the coyote got here, past this huge highway, in one piece.”
Mark DelSignore, a 54-year-old Chelsea resident and personal trainer also out for a morning jog, agreed, It’s very interesting how a coyote could find his way into the piers. We don’t get animals that wild here, not in the city. We have rats, pigeons, the occasional crazy squirrel.”
By Sunday afternoon, ACC said, the coyote was back where it belongs.
“The coyote was assessed and is healthy and has been relocated to an appropriate habitat,” an agency spokeswoman told The Post.
ACC did not reveal, however, exactly where the coyote was turned loose, where it’s believed to have come from or what drove it into the urban jungle.
It wasn’t the first time that a coyote had made its way that far south in Manhattan.
In 2015, one of the canines was captured in Battery Park, just outside of 1 World Trade Center.
Additional reporting by Tamar Lapin